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Scotland needs a movement to fight for peace in 2023
We need a class conscious and mass movement against war in all our communities, says Young Communist League general secretary JOHNNIE HUNTER

THE world is becoming a more and more dangerous place for working people. 

A tragic war continues to rage in Ukraine, an unjustified Russian invasion provoked by Nato, the United States and Britain.

The same Western powers are preparing a new cold war against China, pivoting vast military resources to south-east Asia and conducting an economic, diplomatic and propaganda war.

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