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2022: a year to intensify the struggle for the youth, working people and humanity
As we begin the new year, militancy and class consciousness are on the rise in Britain, says JOHNNIE HUNTER
YCLers heading up Kinder Scout
A new report says the government’s purchase of US nuclear-armed aircraft prioritises transatlantic politics over military needs and ignored its own Strategic Defence Review, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD reminds us that the resilience of ordinary folk can turn the tables on the mighty and 'entitled'
JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
DYLAN MURPHY focuses on the big tech oligarchs’ war against workers and how AI and robotics could destroy 100 million US jobs by 2035
Davie and Turness are two scalps for Trump, Farage and Johnson, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
IN BRITAIN and across the world, 2021 was a year when the working class was faced not just with the worst excesses of a decaying and inhumane capitalist system and its destruction of the Earth.
It also fell to working people to lead the fight against and save ourselves from a global pandemic which the ruling class is unwilling and unable to tackle.
But even in the face of sometimes seemingly insurmountable obstacles and attacks, 2021 has been a year in which working people and the youth have resisted and fought and won.
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