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Crunch time for the left: a communist view of the labour movement's priorities
ANDY BAIN spotlights today’s meeting by the Communist Party of Britain that looks to build for the struggle ahead
GMB strike

TODAY the Communist Party of Britain holds an aggregate for members who are trade union activists, against a background of escalation of the class struggle. 

The party is growing and will use this gathering of longer-term and new members to educate, agitate and organise.  

We meet in unprecedented times and all the sessions will begin from where we are now to build the struggle ahead.

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