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2020 has shown that international links and solidarity are more important than ever, writes JEREMY CORBYN

OUR world today is defined by grotesque and growing levels of inequality. 

Recent research exposed how 10 of the richest people on the globe have boosted their already vast wealth by more than $400 billion since the coronavirus pandemic began, at the same time as extreme poverty is rising for the first time in a decade.

In this increasingly unequal and unjust world, 2020 has been defined by the global coronavirus pandemic, which has shown just how at risk we all are to health inequality and injustice. 

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