LAST week’s bankers’ Budget is a gift for the few and a slap in the face for the many.

Truss, Kwarteng and co have doubled down on tax cuts for the rich, handouts for their mates in the city, dirty fossil fuels and attacks on workers.

We need a massive change, not more of the same. And there is a growing resistance to the deadly status quo.

That outrage has inspired the creation of dozens of community organisations, the Enough Is Enough campaign, the Just Stop Oil Coalition occupation of Westminster, the strike summer and now the autumn of action.  

It is this unity and togetherness, fuelled by the hope that another world truly is possible, and that things cannot go on as they are, that gives me hope for the future.

We need a bold and radical alternative to the misery we face, with public ownership of our energy companies, water, mail and rail at the forefront of an agenda of hope. 

This will tackle the cost-of-living crisis head on, reduce household bills and bring economic justice for the millions of people struggling to put food on the table while bankers are rewarded with obscene bonuses.

Young people are saddled with debt and uncertainty, and the Tory mismanagement of our economy has left them with less opportunity to thrive and achieve. 

Jobs in smaller towns are becoming few and far between while cities like London are far too expensive. 

This squeeze effectively pushes thousands of degree-educated people out of the labour market before they can even join it.

The time has long passed for us to tinker around the edges of a broken system. 

The policies we put forward in the 2017 and 2019 general election manifestos, including a Green New Deal, public ownership and an expansion of our NHS with a new national care service, were popular. 

There is no doubt they would have improved the lives of so many facing uncertainty and hardship.

The fact of the matter is that people here in Britain and around the world are crying out for big change — a peaceful world free from war and without the threat of nuclear annihilation. 

A sustainable world that will give future generations the belief that, if we stand together united, things can, and will, change.

That’s how every fight our movement has been part of has been won, and that is how we will win again.