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Global crises demand working-class answers
Working-class perspectives are missing from crucial debates on international diplomacy, climate change and war — and Trump’s return makes it even more important we communists put them across, writes RICHARD HEBBERT
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WORKERS are looking at the world from Cop29 to Gaza, from the US and Europe to Britain’s streets and the corridors of Whitehall and asking: where do our voices get a hearing?

It’s also an urgent question for communists and progressive activists everywhere as governments — hell-bent on economic growth at any cost — prioritise the interests of monopoly capital over the collective needs of those who elect them. This enables the political right and far right to make gains with their offer of a return to “national greatness,” itself supposedly founded on self-help, a small state and popular consensus.

Looming large over current geopolitical affairs is the US, as the world holds its collective breath in anticipation of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Why did he win?

Raising the stakes

Self-defence or genocide?

Finger-wagging

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