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The British people certainly do not need either Johnson or Hunt – they need a chance to go to the polls and reject austerity, says BILL GREENSHIELDS of the People’s Assembly

WE don’t need a Tory leadership contest. We need a general election — an opportunity to elect an anti-austerity government and the chance to build a huge alliance inside and outside Parliament against the monopolies that currently exert economic and political power against the needs and the will of the people.

As the People’s Assembly made clear in its programme In Place of Austerity, it is the sinister and manipulative world of corporate power that provides the driving force of austerity in Britain and throughout the world.

And we know that whatever wing of the Tory Party finally comes out on top, none of them will ever acknowledge the fact that all of them exist to serve those interests — the billionaires, the tax dodgers, the off-shorers, the huge international monopoly corporation interests.

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