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Labour movement must fight back against Tories' ‘class war’ beginning with June 18 demo, Wales TUC hears
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“THIS is a class war — and we need to fight back,” Cynon Valley MP Beth Winter told a Wales TUC rally to demand a new deal today.

Congress delegates held up placards in support of the June 18 We Deserve Better march as they warned the Westminster government that the movement would not lie down under its attacks.

The Tories were attacking “the right to protest, the right to vote, the right to judicial review and most recently threats to union rights to withdraw labour,” Ms Winter warned.

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