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THE Morning Star supports the goal of the Labour Leave group — Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union — because it sees the EU as an irreformable capitalist monolith.
This is not a recent development. It was wired into the EU prototype, then known as the Common Market, set up in 1956 with six member states and committed to removing all obstacles to the operation of market forces.
Each successive EU treaty and expansion of the bloc’s borders has preserved that capitalist principle at the heart of the developing superstate.
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