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Revellers at last year's Avante Festival
[Festa do Avante]
COMMUNISTS gathered in Portugal called for a “Europe of the people and workers, not the EU of big capital” on Saturday.
The call was made as an international panel of speakers addressed the Avante Festival near Lisbon, organised by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
It came as British anti-Brexit MPs and campaigners are intensifying their bid to overturn Brexit — voted for by more than 17 million voters in June 2016.
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