Campaigners from Fossil Free London, Christian Climate Action and Stop Rosebank gathered outside DESNZ to protest against new oil and gas, October 31, 2026[Pic: Fossil Free London]
HUNDREDS of climate activists rallied outside the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero in London on Saturday, demanding that it rejects an application to develop the North Sea Rosebank oil field.
Activists from Fossil Free London, Christian Climate Action, Stop Rosebank, and Greenpeace also denounced the government’s decision last week to approve the Jackdaw gas field, displaying banners and chanting: “Rosebank? No thanks!”
Fossil Free London director Robin Wells said: “At a time when we need climate action, the government slapped us with Jackdaw. If Rosebank is also approved it would be a climate wrecking ball whose impact would shatter public safety for generations.
“It shouldn’t be anybody’s job to remind those in elected positions that burning more oil and gas is not compatible with a liveable future in which we can enjoy safety in our homes, workplaces and the national parks we love. Fires and heatwaves will only get worse. [Prime Minister] Andy Burnham knows this.”
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that he’s delayed the go-ahead for Jackdaw and Rosebank North Sea oil and gas extraction until after the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election – don’t want democracy interfering with Capitalism.
People take part in a protest organised by Defend Our Juries outside the US embassy in south London in support of Palestine Action ahead of a Supreme Court hearing over the group’s proscription, October 31, 2026
300+ arrested outside London’s US embassy for protesting against Gaza genocide and Palestine Action proscription
MORE than 300 protesters were arrested in London at the weekend for daring to stand against the genocide in Gaza and the “dystopian” proscription of Palestine Action.
About 400 people took part in Saturday’s vigil at the US embassy organised by Defend Our Juries to show solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine, shame the US for its complicity with Israeli forces’ criminality, and demand the British government ditch the proscription of Palestine Action.
According to the Metropolitan Police, 325 of them were arrested at the demonstration, 320 under the provisions of the Terrorism Act for the crime of holding placards with slogans such as “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” and “we are protesters, not terrorists.”
The latest round of arrests takes the tally to over 4,000 since Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by then home secretary Yvette Cooper in July last year.
Before he was carted off by police for allegedly posing a threat, 74-year-old Charles Allison explained why he had made the journey from Cumbria to join the vigil.
“I fear for our civil liberties, which are being devalued and watered down, even by this new Labour government,” he said.
“So I’m dejected, but enthused that there are so many wonderful people protesting.”
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.
Billionaire Elon Musk prepares to give $1,000,000 to a Wisconsin voter during a town hall meeting he was hosting at the KI Convention Center on March 30, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“In a democracy, it’s supposed to be one person, one vote, and the more one person can influence, the less egalitarian our system becomes,” said one expert.
Some of the richest people in the US have spent unprecedented sums of money to influence the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections, and a Sunday report in The New York Timesestimated that the top 20 biggest donors alone have spent a combined $2 billion in federal races this cycle.
The single largest funder of the 2026 midterms, by a wide margin, is far-right billionaire Elon Musk, who has shoveled nearly $450 million to help GOP candidates.
In fact, pro-Republican donors account for the five largest individual contributors to midterm races.
In addition to Musk, the other largest donors this cycle are industrialists Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, who have given $150 million to help elect Republicans; flagship GOP Senate super PAC One Nation, which has spent $138 million; venture capitalists Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz, who have given $116 million; and hedge fund investor Jeff Yass, who has given $110 million.
On the Democratic side, the top spenders have been flagship Democratic Senate super PAC Majority Forward, which has spent $104 million, and George and Alexander Soros, who have given $103 million.
The Times’ report echoes an analysis published last week by the Brennan Center for Justice showing that the 40 largest individual donors to the 2026 elections had spent a combined $2.4 billion as of mid-October.
According to Brennan, this represents the single largest amount of money spent on a midterm election ever since the US Supreme Court’s landmark 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC unleashed limitless political campaign spending.
The Brennan analysis reveals that the spending of the very largest donors has grown dramatically over the last decade.
“The donations coming from the top 40 donors for the midterms total eight times the amount from the top 40 donors by mid-October in the 2014 midterms (the first full midterm cycle after Citizens United), adjusted for inflation,” the analysis explains. “The cutoff to be in the top 40 has also increased to 10 times what it was four cycles ago, to $25 million.”
And while the biggest spenders used to favor Democrats, their loyalties have since shifted to the GOP, and in this election cycle “donors loyal to the GOP now give more than three times the amount that reliably Democratic donors give.”
And while labor unions were once at least represented in the list of top 40 election donors, they have since fallen out and have been replaced by donors from the cryptocurrency industry, the Brennan Center analysis finds.
Ian Vandewalker, senior counsel at Brennan and co-author of the analysis, told The Guardian in an interview published Monday that it’s become easier for politicians to be totally beholden to a single large donor while ignoring the needs of voters.
“In a democracy, it’s supposed to be one person, one vote,” Vandewalker explained, “and the more one person can influence, the less egalitarian our system becomes.”
Economist Paul Krugman expressed similar concerns about the influence of big money in US politics, writing on his Substack page Monday that “oligarchy is on the ballot” in the 2026 midterms.
In assessing the massive spending by megadonors on elections, Krugman said the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision deserved significant blame. However, he said it was also a simple reflection of the fact that the US economy for decades has been rigged to provide benefits primarily to the ultrawealthy.
“Now we… have men big enough to own the government of the United States,” Krugman commented. “This midterm is a test of whether they will get away with it.”
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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.”
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.”
“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.”
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.
Demonstrators with a banner reading ‘The Youth Is Angry’ attend a protest under the slogan ‘Gen Z Takes Care of It’ in Berlin, Germany, October 31, 2026
PROTESTS over cuts and the cost of living continue to rock Italy and France. Millions were on the streets across Europe on Saturday.
Over the weekend mass demonstrations spread to Germany, where the “welfare not warfare” cause has taken centre stage. Placards at the thousands-strong rally at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate read “Merz Must Go,” “No to Cuts and War Budgets,” “Invest in People Not War.”
As in France the monopoly media focus on occasional outbursts of violence rather than the issues at stake. But this is a movement demanding a complete change of political direction across the continent.
German protesters are not the first to link cuts to social spending to ballooning military budgets. But the political choice being made is especially stark in Europe’s biggest economy.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz is a millionaire whose previous role at US asset-management giant Blackrock ties him to the most parasitical and unproductive expression of modern capitalism.
His government has imposed savage cuts on healthcare — raising the co-payer element for drugs and hospital stays that applies in Germany and cutting insurance exemptions for non-working spouses. It has taken an axe to pensions, which Merz openly says will no longer maintain pensioners’ living standards over time.
It has cut unemployment benefit even as deindustrialisation accelerates, courtesy of the move from piped Russian gas imports to costlier and ecologically more damaging liquefied natural gas shipments from the US.
All this has accompanied staggering increases in military spending — Germany even amended its constitution to exempt the armed forces from its famed balanced-book requirements — and the introduction of compulsory fitness-for-military-service checks at 18, which millions of young people rightly see as a stepping stone to conscription.
As the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt puts it, young people see investment in the young (across education, parental leave rights and child benefits) slashed; they see decent jobs disappearing as factories close; and “the administrators of this misery offer only one alternative to these hopeless young people: to die on the G36 rifle for German imperialism.”
These are the same dilemmas mobilising the young in France and Italy. In France, the movement is now readying for mass strike action on November 5 as unions and left forces call out the refusal of the Emmanuel Macron regime to change course.
The drive to war is real, Europe-wide, and exceptionally dangerous. All proposals for a negotiated end to the Ukraine war are dismissed as surrender by European governments and their direct involvement in the conflict is ever deeper.
We cannot tolerate the normalisation of the prospect of war “on the scale our grandparents and great-grandparents endured,” as promoted by Nato secretary-general and Trump boot-licker Mark Rutte. Such a war would kill millions and would be, contrary to the propaganda we are exposed to presenting Russia as an imminent threat, a war of choice by Western powers.
Besides its terrible risks, the war drive is, as the young people of Europe increasingly recognise, being used to justify the permanent degradation of public services and social security.
We need an alternative to austerity and war: a programme for state-led investment in reindustrialisation and the technologies and infrastructure projects needed to cope with climate change.
This is as true of Britain as of Europe — which is why, following a do-nothing Budget, the left needs to build a campaign for a new economic direction big enough to force ministers’ hand before next year’s Spending Review.
And as we see on the streets of Paris, Madrid, Rome and Berlin, it is as true of Europe as it is of Britain — exposing claims by Rachel Reeves and other EU-nostalgics who claim Brexit is the source of our economic problems as a total distraction from the fight for economic transformation we need.
Donald Trump sings and dances, says that it’s fun to kill everyone … unless he gets distracted or falls asleep.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.Andy Burnham brings absurd comedy to politics
Campaigners from Fossil Free London, Christian Climate Action and Stop Rosebank gathered outside DESNZ to protest against new oil and gas, October 31, 2026[Pic: Fossil Free London]
