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IN THE middle of 2020 — its centenary year — the Communist Party was adapting its tactics and creating new arenas for analysis and discussion as the country alternated between partial and full lockdown.
In the months following the declaration of a pandemic, it became clear that the pre-existing capitalist crisis was about to get much worse.
As some of the biggest names names on the high street collapsed it became clear that Britain would face a wave of unemployment not seen for more than a generation. 2021 would also be another centenary, that of the communist-inspired and led National Unemployed Workers Movement, with the lessons and legacy the NUWM brought with it.
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