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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.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
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
