General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Reform UK: Patriotism as a false flag
Farage's party is a political machine deeply tied to the interests of US big business, writes PHIL KATZ in the first of a series of features on this growing force in British politics
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FARAGE’S Reform UK is often portrayed as a patriotic, anti-immigrant party focused on controlling borders and “taking back” Britain. But a closer look at the party’s connections and financial dealings reveals something quite different.
With the demise of the empire, Britain’s capitalist class divided between those who saw their future in the EU, others that wanted to throw in their lot with US imperialism to divide up the world and those locked into local communities in the small business, farming and fishing sectors.
Reform UK represents those tied to the US, but its base is very much in the small business sector.
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