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The European Union is becoming more militaristic and aggressive. It is even more essential that socialists accelerate Britain’s withdrawal from it, argues DOUG NICHOLLS

THE EU has always been a big-business-led, undemocratic structure influenced mainly by the 30,000 corporate lobbyists permanently camped out in Brussels.
Increasingly influential among these are the armaments companies that are smiling at the EU new military and foreign policy directions.
These plans were being agreed during the British referendum campaign, but the European Commission and Remainers were under orders then not to do or say anything that could have helped the Leave vote.
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