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| RCPB (ML) Michael Chant and Chris Coleman propose the toast |
by New Worker correspondent
Communists
welcomed the New Year at the London centre of the Revolutionary Communist Party
of Britain (ML) in south London last weekend. NCP leader Andy Brooks and other
London comrades met friends old and new at the John Buckle Centre, including
diplomats from the Cuban embassy and many active in solidarity work, the
cultural front and anti-fascist struggle.
The rising temper of the working
class in Britain and throughout the world was highlighted by Michael Chant
during the formal part of the celebration organised by the London Region of the
RCPB(ML). Imperialism suffered many setbacks in 2016, not least the defeat of
their minions in Aleppo. But, as Cuban diplomat Jorge Luis Garcia pointed out,
it was also the year that the leader of the Cuban revolution passed away and
the Cuban people were now celebrating the New Year for the first time since
liberation without Fidel. The Cuban people mourned the passing of their great
leader and they are determined to follow in the footsteps of the
revolutionaries who liberated the island to build a socialist society on the
doorstep of US imperialism itself.
Everyone rose to raise a toast for a
New Year of struggle for peace and socialism during an evening that ended in
the spirit of confidence and optimism that always grows whenever comrades meet.
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