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Peace should be our priority for the new year
The anti-war movement needs to assert its deeper solution to the imperialist agenda of endless conflict, argues ANDREW MURRAY
New tombs in a cemetery in Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles, in the Donetsk region

2022 did not want for drama and important developments in British political life.

The chaos in the Tory Party leading to three prime ministers in two months speaks to an elite which no longer pretends to know what it is doing, beyond default defence of property and privilege.

Mounting working-class resistance to the wage cuts with which capital is compounding more than a decade of pay stagnation also marks a watershed, and is replete with promise for further advance.

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