Category: Jeremy Corbyn
‘Absurd and Outrageous’: UK Bars Entry to Climate Scholar, Palestinian Rights Advocate Andreas Malm
Article by Jake Johnson republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Climate scholar Andreas Malm was pictured speaking at the Code Rood action camp in The Netherlands in 2018. (Photo: Code Rood/CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons “This is a drift toward authoritarianism that didn’t begin with me, and it’s not going to end with me either.”
The United Kingdom’s Labour government has barred Swedish climate scholar and Palestinian rights advocate Andreas Malm from entering the country, without explanation, just days before he was scheduled to speak at a conference that will also feature a cofounder of Palestine Action—an organization banned by the UK government on highly dubious grounds.
Malm, an author and associate professor of human ecology at Sweden’s Lund University, said Friday that he was “dismayed” by the UK Home Office’s decision this week to cancel his Electronic Travel Authorization, noting that he has “been going to the UK for decades—this is where I did my archival research for my PhD dissertation and lectured at dozens of universities and participated in even more conferences.”
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Malm said the UK government’s move was “nothing short of scandalous,” and he linked the decision to his scheduled appearance at the conference organized by the socialist magazine Tribune. The event was billed as a discussion of “domination and resistance in the age of [US President Donald] Trump,” featuring Malm and Palestine Action cofounder Huda Ammori.
“This is a drift toward authoritarianism that didn’t begin with me, and it’s not going to end with me either,” Malm told Al Jazeera. “If I’m now being deemed a threat to the public good because I’m supposed to have a conversation with someone from Palestine Action, this is guilt by association.”
Verso Books, Malm’s publisher—including of his 2025 book The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth—said in a statement Friday that it is “shocked and disturbed by the Labour government’s decision to ban one of our leading authors.”
“Never in over 55 years of publishing has a British government revoked the right of one of our authors to enter the country,” said Tariq Ali, the chair of Verso’s board of directors. “We can only assume, since no reasons have been given for banning him, that Andreas’ positions on Palestine, no different from the [International Criminal Court] and UN commissions, is the cause.”
“Verso Books condemns the silencing of critical voices and stands in support of writers and scholars who continue to speak out about important issues and contribute to open intellectual discourse,” Ali added. “We urge the government to restore Andreas Malm’s electronic travel authorisation immediately and allow him entry into the country.”
Jeremy Corbyn, the former UK Labour leader who now serves as the Your Party MP for Islington North, joined the chorus denouncing the cancellation of Malm’s travel authorization.
“This is an absurd and outrageous decision,” Corbyn wrote on social media. “What kind of society are we living in where world-renowned authors and campaigners are treated as enemies and threats? The real threat is this government’s assault on freedom of expression.”
“This is not an isolated incident—and the government should know that it is gaining a bad reputation for censorship and repression,” added Corbyn. “We know why the government has taken this decision: because it wants to silence criticism of Israel, as well as its own complicity in genocide. It will not succeed.”
Article by Jake Johnson republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
Ed Miliband says that he and the Labour Party are full of shit criminalising people holding signs as terrorists despite anything he says. 
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister. He asks who could possibly object to the IDF starving people to death, conducting forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing all Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He says they’ve got a genocide to do for Israel and to stop objecting. Unity marchers in Cardiff defy the weather to demonstrate against far right
‘So let’s all of us commit to stopping the sleep-walking into a new form of Nazism and by acting together, in unity, we can challenge their narrative’SOLIDARITY campaigners came together in Cardiff on Saturday in a Unity March through a rain-soaked capital.
The Unity March was called by a coalition of organisations including CND Cymru, the National Education Union Cymru, PCS Cymru and Together Cymru to bring communities together in the face of far-right attacks.
In his address, Your Party leader Jeremy Corbyn thanked the marchers for the solidarity they were showing to the Palestinian people.
He said: “I reckon that between one and two million people in Britain have either attended demonstrations, gone to local events, signed petitions, lobbied their local MP or done something to support the Palestinian people.
“That is almost unprecedented for international solidarity in this country, so well done each and every one of you.”
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Former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood spoke about the undercover ITV documentary on Reform UK.
“Many people saw on their TV screens this week what the mainstream far right have been carefully trying to hide,” she said. “We saw elected councillors and officials using language, arguments and imagery similar to that used by the Nazis and turning racism into a badge of honour.
“This language, these attitudes of superiority, this lack of empathy is what led, almost a century ago, to concentration camps.
“So let’s all of us commit to stopping the sleep-walking into a new form of Nazism and by acting together, in unity, we can challenge their narrative and their destination,” she said.
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See the original article at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unity-marchers-cardiff-defy-weather-demonstrate-against-far-right
Nigel Farage blames the Muzzies. 
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide. Corbyn and Polanski to attend pre-Budget march to Downing Street
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corbyn-and-polanski-attend-pre-budget-march-downing-street
Jeremy Corbyn addresses campaigners from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign taking part in a protest outside Downing Street, London, September 9, 2025JEREMY CORBYN and Zack Polanski will take part in a March Against Austerity demonstration the day before the Budget next week.
The former Labour leader and Green Party leader will call on the government to put a halt to cuts to council and public services on Tuesday.
The demonstration organised by a coalition of trade unions, campaigns and councillors from across the capital will gather at 6pm on Victoria Embankment before marching to Downing Street.
Mr Polanski said that PM Andy Burnham has said “he wants to bring back hope, but so far he’s all talk… We need to tax the super rich and end austerity.”
Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, NatWest Group and Santander are all set to unveil stronger third quarterly profits in the same week that Chancellor John Healey is expected to target them with a tax hike in his autumn Budget statement on Wednesday.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corbyn-and-polanski-attend-pre-budget-march-downing-street
Palantir Targets MPs With ‘Intimidating’ Letters
https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/palantir-targets-mps-with-intimidating-letters/
Artwork: Filippo Marra/Novara Media | Photo: Roger Harris/House of Commons ‘They will not shut me up.’
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Clive Lewis, the Labour MP for Norwich South, revealed that he had received a letter from Palantir’s new UK senior VP, Tom Watson, warning him that the company was surveilling his activities relating to Palantir last month. Lewis described this as “very Big Brother” and an “implicit threat”.
Watson is a former minister and Labour party deputy leader who now sits in the House of Lords, alongside his Palantir job.
Lewis told Novara Media the Mosley letters in June indicate that Palantir was panicking as the Starmer administration crumbled. “They put all their eggs in one basket with Starmer, and then the writing on the wall was that he wasn’t going to be around much longer.”
Corbyn has repeatedly questioned the wisdom of using Palantir’s tech in the NHS, given the company’s role in supplying military tech to the IDF during the genocide in Gaza and surveillance tools to ICE as it conducts brutal a [sic] immigration crackdown in the US.
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A small excerpt of a longer article here: https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/palantir-targets-mps-with-intimidating-letters/
‘So let’s all of us commit to stopping the sleep-walking into a new form of Nazism and by acting together, in unity, we can challenge their narrative’
