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Hawkish support for the US’s cold war is damaging Britain 
We need to strengthen the connections between the anti-wage cuts and peace movements, argues FIONA EDWARDS of No Cold War Britain

BRITAIN’S economy is in dire straits. New figures released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which cannot be accused of anti-capitalist bias, estimate that the UK economy will shrink by 0.3 per cent this year, making it the worst-performing G7 economy. 

This will have disastrous consequences for ordinary people already suffering from the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades amid soaring inflation and declining real wages. 

That the Tory government’s savage austerity policies offer no way out of this crisis — indeed, are a major cause of Britain’s economic problems — is an issue that is well understood and debated within the labour movement. 

There is always a magic money tree for war 

For economic co-operation not military confrontation   

Building a movement against the cold war 

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