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Our opportunity to build the forces for socialist revolution
JOHNNIE HUNTER reflects on time on the Communist Party campaign trail – and what happens next

WE’RE now less than a week away from a long-awaited general election which will have a decisive impact on the trajectory of the class struggle for the years to come.

The past five weeks of campaigning from the ruling-class political parties have confirmed what we already knew.

The policy “gulf” between Rishi Sunak’s Tories and Keir Starmer’s Labour is virtually non-existent. The ruling class is quite content with the prospect of a Starmer government.

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