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CLIMATE campaigners have marked Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President by dropping a protest banner near Westminster Bridge in London.
The banner, hung across the Thames from Parliament in the action organised by Campaign Against Climate Change, read: “Trump: climate genocide.”
Friends of the Earth, which supported the action, said today: “From his promise to ‘drill, baby, drill’ to demanding the ‘opening up’ of the North Sea, Trump’s return to the Oval Office is emboldening a new wave of climate denial.
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
The wealth of the super-rich grows by £35 million daily while our NHS and schools collapse — that’s why thousands of us will be gathering in London demanding that the billionaires foot the bill for the many crises they have caused, writes TYRONE SCOTT