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Regional secretary with the National Education Union
The shadowy think tanks that run the world
JOHN GREEN shines a light on the powerful neoliberal groups pushing the global free market agenda

IN THE establishment media it is invariably communists and international socialists who are accused of being part of an international conspiracy.

Whereas the real conspiracies set up by the right-wing capitalist elite are kept well-camouflaged by academic and media collusion. 

You may perhaps have heard of the Bilderberg Group, but do you know about the Mont Pelerin Society? If you don’t, you should, because it is one of the most powerful and influential semi-covert right-wing organisations in the world today.

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