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'Let's build our radical alternative vision for our country'
As striking workers show, there is an appetite for something different, writes JEREMY CORBYN
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LAST Wednesday, 700,000 workers up and down the country went on strike.

In the largest wave of industrial action in decades, teachers, junior doctors, civil servants, university staff, Amazon workers, London Underground staff and local radio journalists sacrificed their pay so that others may live in a more equal society.

Joining a rally in Trafalgar Square, I spoke to teachers who were being forced to choose between heating their homes or feeding their children.

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