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The East is Red: campaigning with the Communist Party in eastern England
PHIL KATZ, all-Britain election co-ordinator of the Communist Party, describes a campaign that is taking socialism to the heart of rural communities in the East of England
OUT AND ABOUT: Darren Turner leafletting in Stowmarket during the Communist Party Red Weekend on Saturday

BETWEEN now and July 2 nearly 200,000 homes in three constituencies in the East of England will receive a communist manifesto.

Thousands more have been distributed at high streets, in colleges, town centres, at hustings meetings, train stations and solidarity meetings and marches for the people of Palestine.

There would have been a fourth challenge in Herts but the candidate was threatened with the sack by their employer and had to pull back … but that episode isn’t over yet!

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