In Britain, students are being urged to walk out of lessons on November 20 as part of a strike across Europe. The Socialist Students group says it\u2019s to protest against capitalism, climate chaos, the housing crisis, the \u201cgenocidal war against the Palestinians\u201d and unemployment. This is what\u2019s been termed \u201cthe omnicause\u201d. And it\u2019s being synchronised across western Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, we\u2019re witnessing a much broader and deeper challenge than merely a crisis for France. It\u2019s a war on the West being waged by groups with disparate agendas taking advantage of a civilisation in deep trouble. Those involved are leftists, anarchists, Islamists, assorted grievance artists and useful idiots imagining they\u2019re marching for the \u201coppressed\u201d of the earth \u2014 and with malevolent outside actors stirring the pot. Thus Vladimir Putin\u2019s economic envoy, Kirill Dmitriev<\/a>, said of the French riots: \u201cLeft-wing globalists are sowing migration-driven chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fox News<\/a> reported this month that of 50 groups involved in the month-long French \u201cstudent\u201d protests, only 15 were actually student groups. The other 35 were a transnational network that included labour unions, communist or socialist organisations and a Palestinian advocacy group. These insurrectionists are seizing their moment in a society that\u2019s become demoralised in every sense. It\u2019s lost both knowledge of and respect for its own historic identity and culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read it all<\/a> (subscription).<\/p> Absolutely stunning essay by @DouglasKMurray about the crisis in France. It includes this quote.\nhttps:\/\/t.co\/XBw5Xr5lTp https:\/\/t.co\/rW0GFvDAvj<\/p>— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) October 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n
These groups were advancing political agendas involving capitalism, \u201causterity\u201d, policing, military spending and Israel. One far-left environmental group declared in the midst of the riots, \u201cGlory to the rebellious high school students \u2026 for an antifascist uprising.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n