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Exclusive: Humanitarians speak out on US-led terror campaign in Ecuador

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:6 August 2026
Post last modified:7 August 2026

Ecuador’s coast has become a crime scene, and Washington’s fingerprints are all over it. The Canary interviewed two local humanitarians, published under pseudonyms for their protection. They generously offered us first-hand knowledge of the repeat attacks inflicted upon Manabita communities. On June 14, prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was gunned down outside a café in Manta by a hitman on a motorcycle. Her sister, who threw herself in front of her, died too. Five shell casings. No sign of the police detail supposedly guarding her. Bravo was, shockingly, the twenty-sixth member of Ecuador’s justice system murdered since 2020. She was the second person…

Exclusive: Liverpool’s Sam Gorst resigns from Your Party

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:19 July 2026
Post last modified:19 July 2026

Your Party executive (CEC) member Sam Gorst is well known for his 2023 thrashing of Labour in the Garston local elections, and for being elected to the CEC as an independent. But now he is an ex-CEC and Your Party (YP) member after resigning from both. The resignation comes in the wake of outrage from the CEC, after the suspension of three Your Party executive members for attending a socialist event — leading to a unanimous no-confidence vote in the officials held responsible. YP parliamentary leader Jeremy Corbyn then controversially rejected the vote. In a message to other CEC members shown…

EXCLUSIVE: Man who wrote Sharon Graham’s first Unite manifesto now supports challenger

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:18 July 2026
Post last modified:18 July 2026

Sharon Graham’s former Unite election campaign organiser Matt Smith now supports her opponent, Simon Dubbins. Having seen Graham in action as general secretary, Smith believes that another five years of Graham would be “an utter disaster for our union”. But he didn’t only play an extensive role in her 2021 general secretary election campaign. According to senior union insiders, he “wrote her manifesto”. Unite endured five misused years under Graham Smith said that Graham has increased corruption at Unite rather than reduce it. He claimed that she had appointed useless cronies to senior positions and even made up a “ghost job”…

Exclusive: Your Party CEC votes no confidence but must ask leadership to respect vote

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:13 July 2026
Post last modified:13 July 2026

The Your Party executive committee (CEC) no-confidence vote exclusively revealed by Skwawkbox last week took place on Sunday. The specially-arranged CEC meeting, to hold no-confidence votes in three key officials, was fraught and lasted almost three-and-a-half hours. Yet it ended without a clear conclusion, forcing members to ask party leaders to respect a clear majority vote that just failed to reach the required threshold. The issue was a vote of no confidence in three figures blamed for the suspension of three well-known CEC members for attending a socialist conference. A number of members left the meeting rather than participate, but the…

Exclusive: Your Party CEC holding Sunday no-confidence vote in chair, secretary

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:11 July 2026
Post last modified:11 July 2026

As the Canary revealed exclusively on Tuesday, disgusted members of Your Party’s (YP) executive committee (CEC) called for a no-confidence vote in the CEC’s chair and secretary. The call came after their removal of three well-known CEC members for attending a socialist conference. Skwawkbox can now reveal that the motion received enough support to force a vote, which will be held online from 6pm this Sunday, 12 July 2026. Your Party — Majority support Skwawkbox understands that a clear majority of members have said they will support the no-confidence motion. A senior figure told Skwawkbox that YP’s parliamentary leader Jeremy Corbyn…

Exclusive: disgusted Your Party exec members call no-confidence vote over suspensions

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:6 July 2026
Post last modified:7 July 2026

Outraged members of Your Party’s elected executive (CEC) have called for a no-confidence vote in the CEC’s chair and secretary. It is clear that committee members are outraged over the chair’s move to suspend three well-known members last week. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Solma Ahmed and Mel Mullins were suspended for attending a socialist conference – even though Wimborne-Idrissi hadn’t attended. Your Party: more revelations In an email leaked to the Canary, one exec member wrote to fellow CEC members: Dear CEC members It is with huge regret that I write this email. But I feel strongly that it is needed. I have…

Exclusive: YP suspends Wimborne-Idrissi — for event she didn’t attend

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:4 July 2026
Post last modified:4 July 2026

Your Party (YP) has suspended three members of its executive committee — for attending a socialist event. Well-known Jewish left-winger Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Essex’s Solma Ahmed and the RMT’s Mel Mullins were all suspended for participating in a Socialist Federation conference: YP got it wrong, but that’s not the point But at least one of those suspended wasn’t even at the event. And Wimborne-Idrissi told Skwawkbox that even if she had been, it wouldn’t justify Corbyn’s new party behaving like the authoritarian Labour party: I wasn’t even at it! But even if I had joined in to listen to what was being…

EXCLUSIVE: hard-right Jewish Chronicle targeting Mothin Ali, anti-Zionist Jew Tony Greenstein

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:29 June 2026
Post last modified:30 June 2026

Notorious hard-right libel-factory the Jewish Chronicle is preparing an attack on Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali – and well-known Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein. The article had not yet been published at the time of writing. The rag got itself into a crisis in 2024 after being caught out publishing made-up Israel articles during the Gaza genocide. Before that, it paid out huge sums of cash to a string of left-wingers for blatant libels, mostly penned by ‘doge of phone-hacking’ Lee Harpin. Harpin has now moved on, but the paper hasn’t improved. So its ‘political editor’ wrote to Greenstein asking for…

Exclusive: Unite tells Community members ‘cancel fuel poverty protest with Greenpeace’

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:26 June 2026
Post last modified:26 June 2026

Unite Community (UC), set up by then-general secretary Len McCluskey, is the Unite union’s section for unwaged people — and Unite’s most politically active. But members and officials feel marginalised by new general secretary Sharon Graham. They resent the union’s interference in their political activities, and have now been told they can’t participate in a climate protest. Probably because of who created it, and its campaigning focus, ‘workplace-only’ Graham was planning to wind down Unite Community and merge it with the retired members’ section. Graham U-turned on the plan after Skwawkbox exposed it — but the interference continues. Graham is currently…

EXCLUSIVE: Flotilla activist relives capture by Zionist occupation forces

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:26 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Global Sumud Flotilla activists are returning home. Many suffered IOF torture, beatings and sexual violence. The Canary spoke with British flotilla activist, Alice Chapman, who was abducted by Zionist Navy forces. I joined the flotilla in Sicily, in Augusta, and from there we were sailing for about four days before we were intercepted — I think on night five. We were still in international waters, fairly close to Greek waters. We’d had a warning that day. At that same geographic point, the previous flotilla in September had encountered boats carrying explosives. From Barcelona to Italy, there’d been a lot of surveillance drones…