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Demonstrators outside the Houses of Parliament, London, protesting against Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak

PROTEST will hit the streets in towns and cities across Britain on Saturday as the People’s Assembly puts a spotlight on who’s causing the cost-of-living crisis.

Armies of Establishment economists promote a myth that the operations of the market are mysterious and unchallengeable.

That there is nothing we can do about soaring prices or falling wages — we just have to adjust to them, as the multimillionaire Conservative Chancellor Rishi Sunak advises us.

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