Archive for January 2016
4 January 2016
No retreat on resisting council cuts!
Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters must fight back against the pressure from Labour's right wing to collude in a new round of savage cuts to local council services and jobs
4 January 2016
2016: Crisis-ridden capitalism will meet with bitter mood of resistance
Stormy events were compressed into 2015 and more are to come, writes Peter Taaffe
4 January 2016
5 January 2016
Come to a meeting on 9th January to discuss a budget to meet the needs of the city - a budget to fight for!
5 January 2016
6 January 2016
"The idea that you go from a fire engine with five firefighters on to a van with just two is just madness."
6 January 2016
Parts of northern England, north Wales and Scotland were hit by severe flooding over the holidays. Yet this was not simply a natural disaster. Government cuts to flood defences made the problem worse.
6 January 2016
Dark comic book fantasy throws light on abusive relationships
TV review - Jessica Jones: This is the latest production from Marvel, one of the homes of spandex-clad superheroes and villains. But in many ways, Jessica Jones is the complete opposite of the fantasy and explosion they normally purvey with such aplomb.
6 January 2016
Letters to the editors of the Socialist. Labour's right wingers are the real bullies, not the left; New Labour grandees rewarded by the banks.
6 January 2016
"I chose to be involved in politics, Michael Crick"
Featured letter: Last month, a television crew barged into a meeting in an east London cafe. Walthamstow Socialist Party had organised a discussion with a group of school students interested in campaigning against bombing Syria. Nancy Douglas, 15, responds.
6 January 2016
UK wage growth will be lowest since 1920s
Chancellor George Osborne's pet austerity apologists at the Office for Budget Responsibility have released figures predicting wage growth of just 6.2% over the decade to 2020. This is less than half the 12.7% growth from 2000 to 2010.
6 January 2016
NHS England chiefs block hospitals from publicising emergencies
Health chiefs' new rules mean hospitals must prevent admissions, cancel routine operations, and even cancel some urgent operations, before they can announce top-level overcrowding status.
6 January 2016
What we saw: Sadiq Khan's promises on London transport
Our news editor was leafleted by Labour right-winger Sadiq Khan's election team on his way in to work. Khan is standing for London mayor, and transport is a centrepiece of his campaign.
6 January 2016
UK's private rail fares six times public rates
Workers in Britain spend six times as much of their salaries on privatised rail fares as Europeans who use publicly owned services, a new study has shown.
6 January 2016
Birmingham Labour to axe at least 1,200 jobs in £165m cuts onslaught
TUSC seeks joint campaign with Momentum: Birmingham's Labour council has drafted budget cuts of £90 million in the next financial year and £75 million in the year after. 1,218 jobs will go in 2016-17, and an unspecified number the following year.
6 January 2016
It's one world for the super-rich and their politicians, and another one for the rest of us. MPs award themselves even cheaper posh meals, while basic foodstuffs get costlier.
6 January 2016
Steel: public ownership needed as private buyers threaten pay and pensions
The SNP government continues to orientate its taskforce towards finding a private buyer rather than using the option of nationalisation.
6 January 2016
Nationalise rail now! Rail workers strike around the country
Aslef and RMT union members at Arriva Trains Wales walked out for 24 hours on 4 January with all its services cancelled, over terms and conditions. Some services on the morning of 5 January were also disrupted, with the strike causing chaos as many returned to work after the Christmas break.
6 January 2016
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Prison officers' conference to discuss attacks at work; junior doctors' strike back on; fighting the anti-union bill in Lancashire.
6 January 2016
2015 marks best fighting fund total this century!
Last year, Socialist Party members smashed all 21st century records for raising fighting fund! Following a record Socialism 2015 appeal, our members and supporters have donated and raised over £39,000 in the final quarter of the year.
6 January 2016
No government majority as Podemos partially recovers
Spain - elections mark shift to left: The elections on 20 December registered a fundamental change in the political situation and composition of the parliament. This change was also reflected in the local elections in May.
6 January 2016
Floods, climate change and capitalism
This winter's extreme weather events were entirely predictable. In fact, cabinet ministers were advised just days before storm Desmond hit Cumbria that such floods would occur and that current flood defences were inadequate because of spending cuts.
6 January 2016
Profit system exacerbates flooding
The flooding over Christmas has been some of the worst in recent memory. Fingers are rightly being pointed to the cuts the Tory government has made to flood defence spending, as well as to the emergency services.
6 January 2016
Tories' hypocritical green policies pledge
The response of the Tory government has not been a drive to switch to renewable energy supplies and other green policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
6 January 2016
Renationalise the water industry
Reader's letter: When water was privatised, a lot of venture capitalists found that you can't actually run a public utility at a profit unless you dump some expensive, but vital, functions - like maintenance.
6 January 2016
Support junior doctors' and student nurses' action
NHS workers under attack: The attack launched on student nurse bursaries underlines the continued campaign the Tories are conducting against our NHS. NHS spending is at its lowest as a percentage of GDP since 1951, and the treasury is demanding a further £22 billion worth of cuts by 2020.
6 January 2016
Eleanor Marx: celebrate a life of struggle for socialism
Celebrate the 160th anniversary of the birth of Eleanor Marx who played a pivotal role in the development of the trade union movement, the birth of the Labour Party and as a tireless fighter for working class people, especially women, all over the globe.
6 January 2016
Union action needed to defeat attack on student nurses
The government's 2015 Autumn Statement announced that it intends to end the payment of student bursaries for nursing, midwifery and allied health professional students - as proposed by the Council of Deans of Health - from 1 September 2017. This has been met with anger and alarm.
6 January 2016
A 'People's Budget' to defeat cruel cuts
TUSC and the Independent Group of councillors are holding a meeting against cuts
6 January 2016
Carlisle Socialist Party's action plan on floods
Immediately following the floods, Carlisle Socialist Party drew up the outline of an action plan to prevent future disasters.
7 January 2016
Council uses reserves to stop cuts
The coalition running Stoke council is staving off cuts
8 January 2016
Housing staff strike against cuts
On 6th Jan Sheffield Council housing workers took strike action
9 January 2016
Steps towards setting up Trade Union Momentum
PCS's executive has endorsed continued discussions about Trade Union Momentum
12 January 2016
Doctors sit down in Whitehall, 6.2.16. Photo: Paul Mattsson
Junior doctors' demonstration, London, 6.2.16, photo by Paul Mattsson
13 January 2016
"Shattered but proud", a day in the life of a student nurse
Early starts with late finishes might be the norm as a student nurse but they don't get any easier.
13 January 2016
Student nurses march to oppose bursary cut
Over 1,000 student nurses, NHS workers and members of the public marched through central London to protest the government's plans to cut student nurses' bursaries.
13 January 2016
Doctors battle burnout as 100 full-up GP surgeries apply to shut their doors
GPs want to provide safe, high-quality care for patients. The stress of feeling unable to give patients what they need - while fending off a barrage of increased paperwork and tasks not directly related to patient care - has forced 100 practices to apply to NHS England to close their surgeries to any new patients.
13 January 2016
BBC planned live Labour resignation to damage Corbyn
The 1% and their cronies at the head of the mass media and BBC want to defend their privileged lifestyles. They have no answer to the anti-austerity anger which propelled Jeremy Corbyn to head of Labour. So they resort to sensationalism and distraction.
13 January 2016
Bosses 'earn' year's pay in under a week
Fat Cat Tuesday: By the first Tuesday of 2016, chief executives at the UK's top 'FTSE 100' firms were sitting happily on earnings it will take the average full-time worker a year to make.
13 January 2016
EU probes power plant for wrongdoing over switch from coal to biomass
A UK power plant is under European Union (EU) investigation - for daring to partially switch to a potentially lower-carbon fuel.
13 January 2016
Band embarrasses Cameron over council housing; doctors mock right-wing media smears.
13 January 2016
It's one law for them...: A High Court judge has ruled against the Tories' benefits cap. Strangely enough, it seems the "strongly worded" judgment has not brought an end to Tory attacks on the most vulnerable.
13 January 2016
Slums, speculation, sell-offs and sardines
Tory housing 'u-turn' is woefully inadequate: David Cameron finally seems to have acknowledged the dizzying abyss that free market housing policies have created.
13 January 2016
Cameron's 10,000 new homes won't hide the problem
David Cameron has announced that his government will directly commission and possibly build 10,000 new homes. It will go nowhere near countering the problems facing most of the population.
13 January 2016
A clear strategy to defeat the Tory cuts
Since 2010 local government spending has been slashed by 40%. Countless essential services have been cut to the bone.
13 January 2016
The only way councillors can stop the huge Tory cuts is to mobilise a mass campaign of the council workforce, local residents and anti-cuts campaigners.
13 January 2016
Southampton people's budget meeting
On Saturday 9 January Southampton Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition held a public meeting to support a council budget that meets the genuine needs of the people who live and work in the city.
13 January 2016
Victor Jara's revolutionary life, poetry and politics
Book review - Victor: An Unfinished Song: Before he died, in captivity, already injured, Victor Jara wrote a last poem, his unfinished song. When the workers of Chile and the world put an end to poverty, hunger and inequality, they will finish that song.
13 January 2016
Letters to the Socialist's editors. Letwin's poll tax guinea pigs; poll tax agents provocateurs.
13 January 2016
For a mass programme of council house building: Cameron has announced plans to demolish around 100 decrepit tower block estates. He is subsiding private developers to build homes to buy on public land - no doubt mostly luxury flats.
13 January 2016
Tories back despots: The recent execution of 47 prisoners by Saudi Arabia's rulers has been widely condemned as barbaric.
13 January 2016
Honduras: Day of the endangered lawyer
On Friday 22 January, protests will take place outside Honduran embassies and consulates all over Europe over the increase in violent attacks and human rights violations directed at lawyers and democratic rights activists in Honduras.
13 January 2016
Spirits on Kent's EDF Energy picket line were kept very high by playing cat and mouse with the employer. Bosses assigned managers to follow the pickets - presumably to act as the most obvious bugging devices in the history of espionage.
13 January 2016
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Victimised postal union rep reinstated; fresh tube strikes announced; Lambeth libraries vote to walk out.
13 January 2016
"We hope to inspire people to go out and spread their passion for the Socialist"
With mainstream media being controlled by the right-wing establishment and information being cherry picked to support capitalist interests, it is imperative, now more than ever, to support and actively promote a publication which is in the interests of the working class.
13 January 2016
Report: Socialist Party national women's meeting
On 9 January around 40 members from across the country travelled to London to attend the Socialist Party's annual national women's meeting.
13 January 2016
Eleanor Marx: a life of struggle, solidarity and socialism
Celebrate the 160th anniversary of the birth of Eleanor Marx who played a pivotal role in the development of the trade union movement, the birth of the Labour Party and as a tireless fighter for working class people, especially women, all over the globe. Hosted by Lewisham Socialist Party, south London.
13 January 2016
Sexual assaults in Cologne exploited by racist establishment and far right
The shocking attacks on scores of women in Cologne, where up to 1,000 North African or 'Arab-looking' men were said to be on the rampage, brought the inevitable baying from the far right and a backlash from the establishment media and politicians.
13 January 2016
476,000 homes in England go unbuilt by speculators
New research shows a record 475,647 homes in England have planning permission but are yet to be built. Developers don't want to actually build the houses we need. If they did, Britain's overinflated housing market would crash and their profits would be hit.
13 January 2016
Support the doctors' strikes! Who's the bigger threat to the NHS: junior doctors or Jeremy Hunt? Hunt and the Tories are responsible for a massive crisis in the health service that will get worse in the years to come - if they get their way.
13 January 2016
Corbyn must lead a fight against the right and for an anti-austerity programme
The Tory press is stoutly defending the right-wingers who resigned from the shadow cabinet
13 January 2016
Cuts, debt and exhaustion: The NHS deficit is rapidly worsening. Staff shortages in ambulance and community services mean more work falling on their shoulders.
15 January 2016
Labour's left and right fault-lines are widening. The Tories face deep splits over Europe - and their savage austerity could yet unleash mass resistance. It's a volatile mix, writes Peter Taaffe, in Socialist Today
15 January 2016
Banner unfurled in Newcastle stadium
National Stop Stewards Network supporters in Newcastle displayed a banner in St James's Park stadium in Newcastle at a Manchester United match
18 January 2016
18 January 2016
Nationalise Tata to save steel jobs!
Wales is now feeling the wind of the ongoing butchering of jobs from Tata Steel UK
18 January 2016
People's Budget meeting success
A buzzing meeting voted to oppose cuts to council services
18 January 2016
Police infiltration of the Socialist Party
The news revealed on the Guardian and BBC websites today that 'Carlo Neri' infiltrated the Socialist Party on behalf of the Met Police's Special Demonstration Squad is unfortunately not surprising
19 January 2016
Anti-academy strike in Birmingham
NUT members at Small Heath school in Birmingham have started nine days of strike action (19-21 and 26-28 January and 2-4 February) against the threat to turn their school into an academy
19 January 2016
Celebrating Eleanor Marx's birthday
Pioneering socialist Eleanor was commemorated in Sydenham
20 January 2016
Water firms' £1.2bn in profit off human need
By overcharging customers, private water companies in the UK have raked in profits of over £1.2 billion over the last five years, writes Laurel Fogarty.
20 January 2016
Extortionate housing...: Yes, you read that right. 62 billionaires now own 50% of all humanity's wealth - as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people combined
20 January 2016
Political policing: Met spy targeted socialists
The political role of the police - sending undercover officers into democratic socialist organisations - is back in the news, writes Chris Newby, Socialist Party London.
20 January 2016
Trident debate: socialist programme needed
Just a month after the furore over the Syria bombing vote, Jeremy Corbyn is facing a new challenge as the debate about renewing Trident hots up, writes Rob Williams.
20 January 2016
Outrageous attacks on Corbyn for 'sexism'
Policies are what matter for working class women: The attempts of the Blairites to undermine Jeremy Corbyn know no bounds. One of their latest ruses has been to accuse Corbyn and his supporters of sexism, writes Hannah Sell.
20 January 2016
Unite the fightback: Coordinated strikes needed
"We never dreamt of being on a picket line," said a junior doctor addressing a meeting of trade unionists after an exhausting day of strike activities
20 January 2016
Gateshead carers oppose respite centre closures
For years Gateshead's Labour councillors have boasted they would always protect frontline services for the most vulnerable, writes Elaine Brunskill
20 January 2016
Cologne sex attacks show need to fight sexism and racism: An article in the last Socialist responded to the mass and seemingly coordinated sexual assaults on women in Cologne
20 January 2016
Carmarthenshire Unison campaigns against council cuts
Carmarthenshire County Unison members lobbied the Plaid-led council on 12 January along with other campaigners such as Save Our Parks and Playgrounds
20 January 2016
Preparing a no-cuts people's budget
The new TUSC briefing pack on preparing a 'people's budget' is unquestionably the most important document available for all those who genuinely wish to fight against local government cuts
20 January 2016
Momentum and democracy in Hackney and beyond
In Hackney, around 50 people - from left organisations, the Labour Party and some individuals - attended the first two meetings of the local Momentum group
20 January 2016
Angry Labour meeting puts councillors under fire
My friend phoned me recently to say that he'd been to a Labour Party constituency meeting. There were about 200 people there.
20 January 2016
Reinstatement victory for John Vasey
When I was dismissed over the issue of not completing my delivery I was taken by surprise, writes John Vasey
20 January 2016
Shop workers lobby council against Sunday opening
On 13 January, a deputation from the Leeds private trades branch of the shop workers' union Usdaw lobbied Leeds City Council
20 January 2016
Prison cuts: On 14 January, prison officers' union the POA held a special delegate conference in Daventry called for by the Wormwood Scrubs branch
20 January 2016
1986 Wapping strike - Defeat of the print unions
Workers' struggle undermined by bankrupt union leadership: Although it was a battle fought a generation ago, its lessons are just as relevant for our movement today
20 January 2016
USA: Fight the billionaire class!
An edited version of Seattle socialist councillor Kshama Sawant's alternative 'State of the Union' speech, following Barack Obama's address to Congress.
20 January 2016
China: Financial turmoil spreads fear across global markets
Global financial markets started 2016 with a bang! A reprise of last summer's chaotic falls on China's stock markets triggered panic selling of shares, commodities and currencies around the world
20 January 2016
Northern Ireland: Defy anti-abortion laws
Campaign group Fight4Equality has described the prosecution of a young women for accessing abortion pills as "ludicrous"
20 January 2016
Housing crisis reaches level of 1960s
Imagine that you live in a terraced house on a street that has, at one end, an airport and, at the other, a large factory, writes Bob Severn, private tenant, Birmingham.
20 January 2016
Civil service: £1bn on consultants
A National Audit Office report contains further proof that austerity is working out fine for the bosses, writes Dave Semple
20 January 2016
United workers' action can save NHS
The junior doctors' dispute has again put the future of the NHS centre stage. The health service is under attack like never before. The Tories, linked organically to private for-profit 'healthcare', are driving forward its destruction.
20 January 2016
Unite's local government committee votes for no-cuts budgets
Unite's national committee for local government has called on Labour councils to set 'no-cuts' budgets
20 January 2016
Tube workers to strike again to defend jobs and conditions
Members of London Underground unions will strike on 26-27 January
22 January 2016
The TUSC national steering committee met this week and agreed a timetable and procedures to approve candidates for the English local council elections taking place on Thursday May 5th
22 January 2016
Dave Nellist's byelection appeal to Jeremy Corbyn: 'let's discuss how to fight the cuts'
Ex-Coventry MP Dave Nellist, chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) and a former backbench colleague of Jeremy Corbyn, has appealed to the Labour leader to meet up and seriously discuss how to resist the new round of cuts being made by local councils.
26 January 2016
The privatised adult care service in Haringey, north London, replaced the public service when the council cut it.
26 January 2016
No backsliding in council cuts fight!
At the January meeting of Lewisham Momentum, Socialist Party members were delighted to see speakers from junior doctors and nurses.
27 January 2016
Labour councillor suspended for fighting cuts
Haringey Labour councillor Gideon Bull has been suspended from the Labour group for opposing cuts to the adult care service.
27 January 2016
"I have left work many times in tears" - a council worker
I work in an office for my local council supporting social workers. I have left work many times in tears from feeling very overwhelmed. At times my depression has been greatly heightened due to being in the workplace.
27 January 2016
Socialist Party discusses the fight for socialism
Three regions of the Socialist Party have held regional conference so far this year: Southern, West Midlands and London.
27 January 2016
The end for deep coal mining jobs in Britain
Kellingley Colliery closure marks the end of deep coal mining jobs in Britain and is a casualty of capitalism.
27 January 2016
Teachers need national strategy for a national struggle
Teachers across the country are demonstrating a willingness to fight for, and more importantly win, on pay and conditions with a flurry of schools taking strike action over the last few months. But as a strategy, school-by-school is not going to resolve the problems for all teachers.
27 January 2016
Labour councillor smears TUSC policy as 'BNP'
A right-wing Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets, east London, has accused anti-austerity activists of emulating the far-right, racist British National Party.
27 January 2016
New Socialist Party branch fights against St Austell austerity
Our new Socialist Party branch in St Austell, Cornwall, has wasted no time contacting our town councillors to seek their view on 'no cuts' people's budgets and to offer our support to those opposed to passing on Tory cuts.
27 January 2016
School and college Socialist Party members in Walthamstow, east London, raised more than £70 selling muffins, cookies and brownies to fund their delegation to this year's Socialist Students conference in Coventry.
27 January 2016
Coventry children's services closure protest
There will be a protest outside Edgwick Play Centre in Coventry against its closure, at 12pm on 30 January.
27 January 2016
Obituary: Dean Meehan 1962-2016
Socialist Party members were shocked to learn of the death of RMT member and TUSC candidate Dean Meehan at the age of 53.
27 January 2016
India: student death exposes caste oppression
The suicide of a Dalit PhD student Rohith Vemula has refocussed world attention on the discriminatory caste system in India, in which 180 million Dalits are the most oppressed.
27 January 2016
Davos summit: a broken capitalist system
At their annual semi-secret get together in Davos, Switzerland last week, 3,000 bankers, industry chiefs, media moguls and capitalist politicians met to deliberate the state of world affairs. These self-declared 'masters of the universe' were forced to conclude that their system isn't working properly.
27 January 2016
Labour election post-mortem: nothing to report!
The Labour Party has released its long awaited report into why they lost the general election. Authored by former Blairite cabinet minister Margaret Beckett, it runs to 35 pages and demonstrates a refusal to draw the necessary conclusions from Labour's defeat last May.
27 January 2016
The dark arts of Labour's right
Having been decisively routed in the last year's Labour leadership contest the party's Blairite MPs and Lords, such as Peter Mandelson, continue to wage a guerrilla war against Jeremy Corbyn.
27 January 2016
'People's budgets' and local democracy
Socialist Party members argued for East London Momentum to support no-cuts 'people's budget' proposals, as well as establishing mechanisms for democratic reselection of MPs. This latter point was taken up without disagreement.
27 January 2016
Councillors must fight to defend our services
Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell addressed a North Cambridgeshire Momentum meeting. Socialist Party member Joe raised the issue of Labour councillors refusing to make further Tory cuts by means of using councils' reserve funds while preparing a national campaign of opposition.
27 January 2016
Teaching: a perfect storm is brewing
A lack of school places, teacher shortage and cuts are compounding existing issues related to workload.
27 January 2016
A day in the life of a teacher and mother
In this job, organisation is everything. Without meticulous attention to detail and a lot of forward planning, you can pretty much guarantee you'll be at meltdown stage before the term is out.
27 January 2016
Top tweets: #TraditionallySubmissive
David Cameron recently attacked Muslim women. He apparently said the "traditional submissiveness of Muslim women" is a cause of terrorism. His answer was English language training - which his government has cut the funding for.
27 January 2016
Steelworkers may face benefit cut-off for not seeking bar jobs
Skilled steelworkers, recently made redundant, could apparently face punishing benefit sanctions - for refusing to seek low-paid work which doesn't use their skills.
27 January 2016
Oscars snub black artists: fight racism and austerity in the arts
Non-white actors, producers, and theatre and film makers are under-represented, as are women. Cuts in arts funding, and tuition fees in drama schools and universities, disproportionately affect us.
27 January 2016
Google pays pittance for avoiding £2bn tax
Search engine and advertising giant Google has agreed to pay £130 million in ten years of back taxes. This is a derisory sum considering Google recorded sales in Britain for 2014 alone of £4.5 billion.
27 January 2016
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us. Pensioners freeze as energy firms profit; sicko bosses sicken sick workers; worker told to pay boss!
27 January 2016
Birmingham teachers strike to resist academy attack
Teaching staff in the NUT at Small Heath School in Birmingham have started nine days of strike action against the threat to turn it into an academy.
27 January 2016
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. Victimised RMT rep defended; anti-cuts protest in Brighton; NSSN to hold Port Talbot steel solidarity meeting.
27 January 2016
Do you have something to say? Birmingham's bungling cuts council; useless Ukip's difficult year; job rejection letter rejection letter.
27 January 2016
Red doors and wristbands scandal
Refugees and asylum seekers in Middlesbrough, Teesside, have been experiencing daily abuse and attack. Their homes were marked out with red-painted doors. Meanwhile in Cardiff, a private housing firm has been marking the asylum seekers it accommodates with compulsory red wristbands.
27 January 2016
Trade union bill will stretch resources as well as limit action
The government released its impact assessment for the bill
27 January 2016
The strike set to start on 26 January has been called off
27 January 2016
Housing: smash the Tory wrecking bill
A Dickensian world of slum housing, overcrowding, soaring rents and the threat of eviction is now becoming the reality for millions of ordinary people in Tory Britain. But this is just a foretaste of what is in store if the Housing Bill becomes law.
27 January 2016
Tories 'Prevent' civil liberties
The editorial of the Socialist: Increasingly the government's 'Prevent' strategy is facing protest. It is just one example of the Tory's government's accelerating racism and attacks on civil liberties.
27 January 2016
New wave of protests in Tunisia
'Arab Spring' five years on: Five years after the fall of the dictator Ben Ali, the demands of the revolution remain unsatisfied. And in recent days Tunisia has been swept by a new 'intifada' (uprising) from its impoverished youth, fed up with a life of misery and mass unemployment.
29 January 2016
No-cuts petition to Lewisham council
Socialist Party members in Lewisham, south London, have successfully argued for the local Momentum group to register a no-cuts budget petition with the council.
29 January 2016
Suspended councillor invited to help draw up no-cuts budget
Haringey Labour group suspended a councillor for voting against cuts
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