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UK-EU deal frees us from EU sovereignty, but not from big business sovereignty, say Communists
Communist Party of Britain general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS and international secretary JOHN FOSTER have released the following statement on the UK-EU Agreement on Trade and Co-operation

THE UK-EU trade agreement is a compromise between the interests of British state-monopoly capitalism, on the one side, and those of German and French monopoly capital — represented by their states and the EU — on the other.

The Communist Party has consistently pointed out that the big monopoly capitalists of Britain and the EU have sufficient interests in common to reach a deal, however unlikely the prospect at any particular time.

But such an agreement was never intended by either side to benefit the working classes and peoples of England, Scotland, Wales, or the other countries of Europe.

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