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Our choice isn’t between anti-worker policies made at Holyrood or at Westminster
The Covid-19 crisis has shown the SNP is not an alternative to the Tories — we need a new working-class movement to fight them both, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER, general secretary of the Young Communist League
Holyrood

DESPITE being less vulnerable to the Covid-19 virus as a group, young people in Scotland — and indeed Britain as a whole — have been acutely affected by the pandemic.

Even before the scale of the threat we faced had become fully apparent and wide-ranging measures were taken, young people in Scotland faced grim and uncertain times.

For the vast majority the chance of a dignified life and an optimistic future seemed remote. One in four children in Scotland grow up in poverty.

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