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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
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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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