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COMMUNISTS and their supporters will take to the streets of the villages, towns and cities of Britain this coming week, culminating today in a national day of action.
This mobilisation has been called in defence of the democratic demand to leave the bosses’ EU, to push for a People’s Brexit and to highlight the anti-democratic attempts of Parliament to frustrate the referendum result.
These would render the EU exit all but meaningless as the UK would still be shackled to its austerity, privatisation and pro big business policies. It will also point out the dangers of a so-called government of “national unity” and the travesty of seeking a “second” or “confirmatory” vote, when the first has yet to be implemented.
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