"In a world built by plutocrats, the powerful are protected while vengeful laws silence their critics"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/02/plutocrats-powerful-laws-uk-rich-corporations

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Inequality demands oppression. The more concentrated wealth and power become, the more those who challenge the rich and powerful must be hounded and crushed. In other words, economic inequality is mirrored by inequality before the law. You can dispense with all the other indices of democracy. The best measure of the health of a political system is who gets prosecuted.
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Not much to add. Monbiot is describing the corporatism side of fascism. And if anyone is thinking: "nope, it's not fascists, these are just greedy business assholes and scammers", I have to say that they can be and usually are both. The predatory behavior is opportunistic, they call it "win-win".

Assuming you're familiar with XR, see: https://www.animalrising.org/our-history - they seem to be UK based (formerly known as Animal Rebellion).