Green party leader Zack Polanski (Green Party of England and Wales). Image: Bristol Green Party Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
The Green Party of England and Wales’ membership has surged past the Conservative Party, making the Greens the third largest party in the UK. From this position, and with Labour’s clear shift to the right, it’s clear that the Greens are now the Party of choice to counter Reform and their brand of divisive politics.
In just over two hours, the Green Party saw 1,000 new members join on Sunday morning after Zack Polanski announced the news on BBC One’s Laura Kuenssberg show. The Green Party membership now stands at over 126,000. This latest milestone marks an 80% increase since Zack Polanski was elected Leader of the party last month. The Greens now have more than double the reported members of the Liberal Democrats.
Green Party Leader Zack Polanski said:
“More than 126,000 people have now joined the Green movement, showing that British politics is changing and support for old-style parties built on privilege and power is shrinking. Increasing numbers of people are walking away from the politics of austerity, inequality and division and choosing a new kind of politics that offers a bold, hopeful vision of prosperity, equality and unity”.
“Our membership boom reflects growing public frustration with the political status quo and a hunger for genuine alternatives”.
Since Polanski was elected leader, the Greens have become a clear voice on the cost-of-living crisis, climate breakdown, and the collapse in political trust.
Polanski added, “This milestone shows that people are ready for something new. The old two-party system is broken. The Green Party is growing because we speak to the real challenges of this moment, and it’s clear that with our message, people can see that politics can be a force for good”.
The Green Party is now preparing to launch a series of autumn campaigns on fair taxation and tackling the cost-of-living crisis, as the Labour Party prepares what is likely to be another austerity-driven budget.
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A coal power station in Ohio, US. Donald Trump has declared his support for coal and other fossil fuels. Photograph: Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables
Coal use hit a record high around the world last year despite efforts to switch to clean energy, imperilling the world’s attempts to rein in global heating.
The share of coal in electricity generation dropped as renewable energy surged ahead. But the general increase in power demand meant that more coal was used overall, according to the annual State of Climate Action report, published on Wednesday.
The report painted a grim picture of the world’s chances of avoiding increasingly severe impacts from the climate crisis. Countries are falling behind the targets they have set for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which have continued to rise, albeit at a lower rate than before.
Clea Schumer, a research associate at the World Resources Institute thinktank, which led the report, said: “There’s no doubt that we are largely doing the right things. We are just not moving fast enough. One of the most concerning findings from our assessment is that for the fifth report in our series in a row, efforts to phase out coal are well off track.”
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Ghassan Abu-Sittah and other health workers hold press conference after Israeli attacks on Gaza’s hospitals, October 2023. Source: Ghassan Abu-Sittah/X
Palestinian health workers and members of flotilla missions condemn Israel’s ongoing crimes in Gaza and the false promises of Donald Trump’s so-called peace plan.
“There is no peace and there is no plan,” Dr. Mustafa Barghouti emphasized during a discussion hosted by the People’s Health Movement (PHM) on Sunday, October 19, speaking about the situation in Palestine following the announcement of a ceasefire earlier this month. Together with Dr. Hanne Bosselaers and Aziz Rhali, both health workers and participants in recent attempts to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza by sea, Barghouti addressed ongoing Israeli crimes and the need for international solidarity movements to keep mobilizing.
The outline proposed by US President Donald Trump, Barghouti argued, “does not mention once the necessity to end occupation. It does not mention the right of self-determination for the Palestinian people. It does not mention the right of the Palestinian people to be free and have a state of their own.”
All of these things, however, remain at the heart of the Palestinian liberation struggle, he said, and they rely also on international solidarity. According to Barghouti, it was this sustained global mobilization that pressured both the US and the Israeli government to reduce the intensity of the assault on Gaza. “I think the ceasefire happened only because of two factors: the steadfastness and heroism of the people of Gaza – of the Palestinian people in general – but also because of the international solidarity movement, which has become a revolution, a true revolution,” he stated.
Israeli abductions fail to break health workers’ solidarity
Bosselaers and Rhali have been active contributors to that movement, particularly over the past two years, including through their participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla and Consciencemissions. Although both were illegally intercepted in international waters and kidnapped by Israeli forces on separate days, their experiences following these illegal acts have a lot in common.
“Every hour during the night, they came to wake us up just to count us,” Rhali described how Israeli soldiers tried to exhaust and break the determination of flotilla participants. “When we started protesting because one of us needed insulin, they refused to give it to him. They came armed, with dogs, to tell us we were simply being counted and that they weren’t going to give insulin to terrorists.”
“They tried everything in that prison to discourage us, to humiliate us, to make us afraid, to break us, but that didn’t work,” Bosselaers added. “We stayed dignified and kept thinking about all the Palestinian prisoners just one wall away from us.”
Bosselaers was one of more than 90 health and media workers aboard the Conscience, whose mission included exposing the deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists and medical staff since October 2023. “When you are committing a genocide, you don’t want anyone to witness it or bring out the truth, that’s why more than 250 journalists were killed in Gaza,” she said. “And if you want to perpetuate a genocide, you don’t want people saving lives, so all health workers, all hospitals were heavily targeted – more than 1,500 health workers were killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023.”
Attacks on healthcare in Palestine continue
Despite the ceasefire agreement, Israeli attacks on Gaza’s health system continue in other forms. “It was completely heartbreaking to see [Palestinian Medical Relief Society] structures and clinics we spent 30 years building destroyed in just a couple of minutes,” Barghouti said. Equally painful is knowing that occupation forces still block the entry of essential equipment and medicine, and prevent thousands of Palestinians in need of care from seeking treatment abroad. “They are preventing the passage of medical materials and medicines that we need very badly,” he emphasized. “They are preventing any construction materials from reaching Gaza, and you know most of the infrastructure there is destroyed.”
“Nobody should think the war in Gaza is over, it’s still going on,” Barghouti warned, adding that the so-called peace plan celebrated by Western leaders is an insult to Palestinians, particularly where it envisions foreign rule over the Gaza Strip. “Why do we need foreign rulers? We struggled for decades against British colonialism and now we’re struggling against Israeli colonialism, certainly not just to have another foreign body ruling us in Gaza.”
Instead, Barghouti said, the focus must remain on maintaining international pressure through grassroots movements and workers’ solidarity. He referred to the recent general strikes in Italy and mass protests in Spain, France, and elsewhere as examples of how the Western working class can play a role in ending Israel’s impunity. “We need to enhance the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against the Israeli occupation,” he said. “Because our goal is not just to end the war on Gaza. Our goal is to achieve freedom. Our goal is to end occupation. Our goal is to end the system of apartheid that we are subjected to.”
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US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and head of CENTCOM Admiral Brad Cooper, in Gaza days after the ceasefire was announced. Now they are back to salvage the deal. Photo: Steve Witkoff / X
The US administration has dispatched Witkoff, Kushner, and Vance to Israel to salvage the shaky ceasefire deal.
US President Donald Trump confirmed to reporters on Sunday, October 19, that the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal, which he announced on Wednesday, October 8, is still in place.
Trump’s confirmation came after Israel launched a renewed aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip during the past several days with a series of airstrikes and shooting attacks, which left dozens of Palestinians killed.
Israel claimed that its warplanes waged the deadly airstrikes in retaliation of an alleged shooting attack by Hamas fighters against two personnel of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), leaving them dead. Aid entry into the starved enclave was halted as a response to the purported shooting attack as well.
“We want to make sure that it’s going to be very peaceful with Hamas. As you know, they’ve been quite rambunctious. They’ve been doing some shooting, and we think maybe the leadership isn’t involved in that, that it’s some rebels within, but anyway it’s going to be handled properly. It’s going to be handled toughly, but properly,” Trump told reporters.
When he was asked: “Is the ceasefire still in place?” The US President replied: “Yes.”
Israel has committed scores of violations since the ceasefire started
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that after the renewed Israeli aggression, the death toll in the war-torn strip has risen to 68,216 fatalities since October 7, 2023.
Trump sends Witkoff, Kushner, Vance to Israel to bolster the fragile ceasefire deal
In an effort to salvage the fragile ceasefire deal, the US administration dispatched its “Middle East” envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to Israel on Monday, October 20, to meet Israeli officials, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and two IOF major generals.
Meanwhile, US Vice President JD Vance is set to arrive in Israel on Tuesday, October 21, to join the discussions on the deal.
Israeli media outlets reported that Witkoff and Kushner warned Netanyahu against taking any action that may jeopardize the first phase of the deal.
“Do not act in a way that would endanger the ceasefire. We want to do everything to reach the second phase,” the two US envoys were cited saying while addressing Netanyahu. “Self-defense is acceptable, risking the ceasefire is not,” they insisted.
Maintaining the first phase of the ceasefire deal was not the only topic to be discussed during the meetings. The “entire mechanism for dismantling and demilitarizing postwar Gaza”, and “all the preparations necessary to carry out the second phase of the agreement” were also on the table.
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A new convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter Gaza Strip through Egypt’s Rafah Border Crossing following the ceasefire on October 22, 2025. [Ahmed Sayed – Anadolu Agency]
The UN warned on Wednesday that humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is being hindered by closed border crossings by Israel, even as families move to areas that have become accessible since an Oct. 10 ceasefire, Anadolu reports.
Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesperson Farhan Haq reported at a news conference that “since the ceasefire took effect more than 10 days ago, the UN and its partners have made progress in scaling up response efforts in Gaza, especially in central and southern areas of the Strip.”
“The continued closure of the Zikim and Erez crossings, which provide direct access to the north, make it extremely challenging for humanitarians to reach people there with vital support at the scale needed,” he said.
Since the ceasefire, more than 425,000 movements have been reported from southern to northern parts of the Strip, Haq said, with displaced people sheltering in sites such as Jabaliya and two schools in Beit Lahiya, which had previously been unreachable due to Israeli military operations.
On aid delivery, Haq said out of 10 UN-coordinated humanitarian missions inside Gaza on Monday, six were facilitated, including “the collection of water tanks, hygiene kits and fuel from the crossings into Gaza.”
“Today, we managed to collect several tankers of fuel and hundreds of pallets of baby diapers,” he added.
UN-coordinated trucks carrying almost 1,500 metric tons of aid were collected from the Karem Abu Salem and Kissufim crossings on Monday, nearly three-quarters of which was food, he said.
“Other supplies included shelter materials, animal feed, health supplies and water, sanitation and hygiene items,” Haq said.
Stressing the importance of opening the Rafah crossing, Haq warned that “the real test is whether this ceasefire lasts longer than the previous one.”
On the occupied West Bank, Haq welcomed a recent US senators’ letter to President Donald Trump urging a firmer stance against Israeli annexation and said: “Of course, we’re in favor of all steps that discourage the changes to the status quo of the West Bank.”
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