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The Covid-19 crisis is class politics laid bare
With working-class people being treated as the canary in the mine, now is the time to fight back, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
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US BILLIONAIRE Warren Buffet once famously said “There’s class warfare all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war and we’re winning.”
Those words came to mind as I watched Boris Johnson deliver his address to the nation this week. It was a thinly veiled declaration of class war.
For all his statement’s incoherence and inadequacies, Johnson’s strategic objective was to scrap the “Stay at Home” slogan and replace it with the potentially deadly “Stay Alert” message.
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