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Protests in the US show a people’s mass movement can be rebuilt
People carry signs during a "Hands Off!" protest against US President Donald Trump on April 5, 2025, in New York

DEMONSTRATIONS across the United States over the weekend give the lie to claims that all is lost in the struggle for people’s rights and social justice against the conservative right and its far-right allies.

Of course, there are always the defeatists — notably the “centre-left” intellectuals — who insist that the working classes on both sides of the Atlantic are too stupid, lazy, selfish and racist to resist injustice.

In the words of Private Frazer: “We’re all doomed!” Fascism is inevitable.

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