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In 2025, we must confront a dystopian right fighting for unchecked corporate power
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says the status quo cannot last – but those currently poised to replace it would usher in a nightmarish new era
Musk’s political agenda is more sharply defined than Trump’s

AS WE enter 2025, the exhaustion of liberal centrism across the West is clearer than ever.

The return of Donald Trump to the White House. The recent collapse of the governments of France and Germany. 

Britain’s own experience — a Labour government resting on fewer votes than it won in opposition, beset by corruption scandals and political pratfalls in its first few months, already trailing the recently wiped out Tories in the polls.

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