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Socialism is still the only answer to the war on living standards, public services – and the planet itself
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO on the challenges facing the paper and the movement as we enter 2022

THE last couple of years can seem a bit of a blur, a depressing sequence of semi-lockdowns and partial reopenings. 

The virus casting its shadow over all our plans, as in the background the Conservative government assiduously strips away rights — to protest, to vote, to freedom of speech, to seek refuge from persecution, even to receive warning if it decides to remove our citizenship.

This monotony should by now have exploded any notion that Covid is a temporary emergency after which we can go back to “normal.” 

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