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Huffington Post

Left Unity will fight for the poor if Labour won’t

The storm has blown away the last of the summer. Winter is on its way. And for Britain’s poorest families, forced by a soaring cost of living and the government’s austerity onslaught to choose between heating and eating, it promises to be a winter of discontent. George Osborne may be cheering the country’s return to

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Iain Duncan Smith

The government of millionaires needs to wake up to the lives of millions

After Iain Duncan Smith claimed he could live on £53 a week in benefits instead of his £1581 a week post-tax salary, he was challenged by an online petition to put his money where his mouth is. Within a day the petition attracted more than 200,000 signatures. Petitions are hardly the strongest form of political

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