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How can we take Britain towards a socialist future?
ROBERT GRIFFITHS outlines the Communist Party’s new draft updated programme, Britain's Road to Socialism, published today
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WHAT forces shape today’s world and why? How can they be harnessed and directed in the interests of the people and our planet?

In 2017, the majority of the world’s 150 biggest economic entities were giant capitalist corporations. The largest 25 were countries, headed by those — the US, Germany, Britain, France and Japan — that provide the home base for more than half of the largest 100 companies whose operations straddle planet Earth.

In those countries, the power of the state is used to protect and promote the interests of their own ruling class whose companies together monopolise the economy at home and abroad.

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