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Earlier this week, CAROL STAVRIS delivered the main report to the Communist Party’s political meeting, covering the small boats crisis, climate change and the drive to war
A group of people are brought in to Dungeness, Kent, onboard an RNLI Dungeness Lifeboat, following a small boat incident in the Channel, August 16, 2023

LAST Saturday, a small boat carrying more than 60 people, including children, capsized and sank in the English Channel.

Six Afghan men died and some passengers are still missing. Others on the boat were from Sudan.

Imperialism’s military interventions and proxy wars continue to destabilise countries in Asia, Latin America, and east and west Africa in an aggressive drive to protect Western economic interests and impose political dominance.

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