Firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) take part in the Cuts Leave Scars rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, October 26, 2023
AROUND 2,300 firefighter posts will be lost under “disgraceful” central government cuts, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Steve Wright has warned.
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Following yet another below-inflation funding settlement for 2025-26 after 15 years of austerity, Mr Wright said: “It is simply disgraceful that the government is imposing cuts on this scale, having come to power promising change.
Shut the System activists engaged in an action of sabotage in London, August 2025. Photo: Shut the System
‘Open organising is impossible.’
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By 6am, while the workers that clean and service the City are hopping off buses and as security staff are performing their night shift patrols, Shut the System activists have sliced the electricity cables that control the gas supply at JP Morgan’s London office and superglued the cabinet that houses them shut – making a quick repair impossible.
In short, an act of sabotage against the single largest fossil fuel funder in the world. Researchers say that over the last four years, JP Morgan has pumped an eye-watering $192 billion into the industry.
Simultaneously, another group cut the earthing cable in the electricity box outside the Allianz office in near Liverpool Street. Shut the System sent Allianz an email warning them of the risk of electrical damage they face without earthing. An Allianz spokesperson told Novara Media that despite activists’ efforts, the action did not cause any disruption at the site.
Despite Günther Thallinger, a top figure at the insurer, warning recently that climate change is on track to destroy capitalism, Allianz still insures $26 billion of fossil fuel projects, according to Investing in Climate Chaos’ reporting.
Shut the System argues that Allianz is also complicit in the Gaza genocide, as it is an insurer for Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.
In these heady days, it’s not unreasonable to worry about Shut the System being proscribed, like Palestine Action recently was. It’s a way for the government to go after a group even if, like me, it has no idea who the members are.
Shut the System doesn’t seem too concerned. Not having targeted military bases, its activists think that’s a long way off for them. And it didn’t seem too fazed about public support for its actions either. Unlike many other groups, it isn’t actively looking for it.
Instead, it’s focused on its targets. And, it told me, those targets “should bear in mind that the longer they support genocide and climate collapse, the more people’s rage will build up against them.”
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Donald Trump urges you to be a Climate Science denier like him. He says that he makes millions and millions for destroying the planet, Burn, Baby, Burn and Flood, Baby, Flood.Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him. He says that Reform UK has received millions and millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
HOPE not hate can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK.
In recent months, the flagging fascist group Britain First has tried to revive its fortunes by shifting away from elections towards public protests. Under the slogan “March for Remigration”, a euphemism for mass deportations, the group has held a series of events that have brought an assortment of neo-Nazis, misogynists, crackpots and convicts onto the streets of Nuneaton, Birmingham and, on 2 August, Manchester.
This included Lee Twamley, snapped marching alongside Britain First leaders Paul Golding and Ashlea Simon at the forefront of the Manchester event, holding a Union Jack flag aloft.
Convicted people smuggler Lee Twamley (circled) at Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester, 2 August 2025 (Picture: HOPE not hate)
However, we can reveal that Twamley was previously jailed for 20 months as part of a Salford gang that tried to smuggle 11 Vietnamese migrants across the Channel to pay off drug debts.
Climate science denier Nigel Farage explains that it’s simple to blame asylum-seekers or Muslims for everything.Keir Starmer refuses to be outcnuted by Nigel Farage’s chasing the racist bigot vote.
Firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) take part in the Cuts Leave Scars rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, October 26, 2023
