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As the crisis of capitalism widens so do the dangers to democracy

BILL GREENSHIELDS urges an intensification of the information offensive against the impact of the spurious discourse peddled by Reform UK

UNITED WE STAND: A lantern parade in Liverpool marks the reopening of Spellow Community Hub and Library after it was torched during riots in August 2024

THERE is a demand for answers to the escalating crises we are facing. In the elections many people found false answers in the simplistic, hate-filled politics of the populist far right.

But many more, alienated by and contemptuous of the corrupt political system designed to keep them in their place, plumped for something new that would be “one in the eye” for that system, and that they thought just might somehow be different.

Reform UK’s populist electoral stance was intended to reach very different audiences with a variety of views on things from climate change to workers’ rights, public ownership to immigration, trade unionism to foreign aid, feminism to public services.

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