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Tory plot to rob working class of housing

TORY plans to sell off Britain’s remaining social housing will mean “theft from the working class,” the Communist Party warned yesterday.

David Cameron’s extremist bid to force housing associations to flog stock at massive discounts would spell the end of affordable housing in city centres and see working people crowded into flat and room-shares reminiscent of 19th-century slums, the party’s political committee heard.

Morning Star acting editor Ben Chacko said the Conservative manifesto was a declaration of class war which would strip workers of the right to strike.

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