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Culture is a potent force in the struggle for change
Unite general secretary LEN McCLUSKEY explains why the union is backing a groundbreaking grassroots poetry initiative with the publication of On Fighting On!

AS WORKING-CLASS people, we know all about economic struggle.

It’s a constant one for many nowadays to make ends meet on low incomes and inadequate benefits because these have been deliberately frozen and even cut by governments of the rich and powerful.

The chaos and cruelty around the introduction of universal credit is just the latest example of the deliberate attack on the poor by the Tory government.

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