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Keep Dewsbury Fascist free!

June 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The violent fascist English Defence League are planning to march in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire this Saturday.

Just like we saw in Bradford, Luton and Halifax this is just a cover up for violent attacks on Asian and Black communities.

Rochdale and Leicester showed that the fascists’ strength in the North is decreasing, mainly because of their obsession with getting drunk and fighting amongst themselves.

However we mustn’t write them off; where they have no opposition they will feel more confident, and will return in bigger numbers.

In Wakefield the fascists were driven off the streets by mass demonstrations of anti-racists who made sure there was no place they could assemble to spread their poison.

We want to do the same in Dewsbury this weekend. Black and white must unite against the racist ideas which divide us and make working class people weaker.

Fascists on our streets mean more racist attacks, and more division in our communities. We are all facing devastating attacks on our jobs and public services. Racists and fascists aim to divide our resistance by making us blame people worse off than ourselves.

We say that it’s the politicians, the bankers and the bosses who are to blame. They are raking it in, stirring up racist propaganda to prevent a united resistance to this class war.

Assemble 11am, junction of Foundry Street and Market Place, Dewsbury. Let’s keep Dewsbury Fascist free on Saturday!

Revolution demands

• No platform for racists and fascists

• Organise self-defence to protect our communities

• The bosses are to blame for cuts and poverty – not foreign workers!

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Fascists get cold feet in Rochdale and Leicester

February 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Rival fascist groups the EDL and the Infidels tried to hold demos in Leicester and Rochdale today. It seems the cold and declining size of the rallies persuaded most of the fascists to stay at home, no doubt winning their crusade somewhere on the internet.

The Infidels’ Rochdale demo was all the more pathetic considering the splinter group’s hype about making 2012 ‘the Year of the Infidels’. All talk, in other words.

Money talks and bullshit walks. And this applies even more in the messed-up world of Britain’s fascist fringe. Although EDL turnouts are decreasing, it has still got at least enough financial backing to keep Tommy Robinson’s coke habit on the road.

The fact that the fascist demos are generally getting smaller is to be welcomed. As police repression of protests is increased, the fascists have no one to fight and end up fighting themselves. This is driving a wedge between the moderate, racist wing, and the hardline fascists whose tactics are shown by their attacks on the working class movement.

Nevertheless, despite a handful of exceptions, for example Bradford and Birmingham, anti-fascist forces have not been able to prevent the EDL from marching. UAF remains hamstrung by its reliance on trade union and labour money – sticking to mobilising around ‘celebrating’ diversity, when the fascists attack ‘diversity’ with boots and fists.

Labour and the trade union leaders are not going to support a mass working-class movement to defend our communities against racism and fascism. This is because such a movement would be a reflection of the wider working-class resistance to attacks by bosses and politicians.

Fighting racism goes hand in hand with defending maternity wards. The bosses are whipping up nationalist shite so we invent enemies amongst ourselves, instead of uniting against the parasite 1%.

Fascists will grow in confidence as the ruling class is forced into more and more extreme measures to subdue opposition to its privilege. Wherever fascists organise, racist attacks rise.

The response of the ruling class to any dissent or opposition to its cuts program has been uncompromising: hundreds jailed and seriously injured during the Student movement, restrictions on the right to protest and punitive sentences for those involved in the August riots.

The violence of the fascists, and the violent reactions of the state are two sides of the same coin: a reflection of our society, where violence is monopolised by one class and used to achieve the exploitation of another.

Any movement against the cuts must be a movement that rejects all the ideas which the bosses use to divide us. It must be prepared to build the democratic forces capable of defending our communities and campaigns from the violent attacks of the police and fascists.

 

 

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EDL shows its true colours with attacks on #Occupy and Trade Union movement

November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The last few weeks have seen an upswing in the movement against cuts and their cause – capitalism. Thousands of young people have occupied public squares and named capitalism as the enemy, and in Britain millions of workers are preparing for industrial action on November 30th. But this upsurge in left wing protest has led to a violent response from the fascist EDL.

On the 30th of October around 20 EDL and National Front thugs attacked the Occupy Newcastle camp in the middle of the night. They punched, kicked and stamped on occupiers as well as throwing bricks at tents. Then, during Remembrance Day, which the government has used to whip up nationalist and pro-war feeling, the EDL took the opportunity to take strike against the left.

In London hundreds were arrested after EDL members promised on facebook to “do what the government couldn’t” by clearing the Occupy London camp. It also later emerged that in Liverpool dozens of thugs tried to attack the Unite trade union’s North West HQ; fortunately trade unionists defended the building and drove the EDL off.

The EDL claims to be against Islamic fundamentalism but it becomes obvious to anyone who does some research that their agenda goes far beyond this and that they are a racist organisation. But they are all the more threatening because they are fascists. Fascist groups are a type of organisation that grows out of the crisis in capitalism and attempts to resolve its problems when the police and parliamentary democratic framework can’t. They do this by making the working class divided through racism, but also by attacking the organised working class and breaking their resistance and thereby temporarily restoring profitability to capitalism. That’s why these attacks are significant – because the EDL is ditching it’s media-friendly ‘anti-Islamisation’ in favour of a return to old-fashioned trade union bashing.

These events demand immediate action from the left and working class movement. We need to defend our communities but also our organisations and demonstrations, like the occupy camps. To do this we need a mass, working class, democratic organisation that is disciplined and prepared to not only defend itself but also to physically prevent the EDL from organising wherever they are.

Everywhere the EDL have a presence they can grow and everywhere they grow and pretend to be an alternative to the misery that capitalism creates. The anti-fascist movement needs to expose these lies and put forward the only real solution to the crisis, a united working class fight back against capitalism that incorporates all ethnicities, genders and sexualities. But arguments alone are not enough and the violent nature of the EDL shows that they also need to be met by an immediate response on the streets.

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No platform and self-defence can stop fascist attacks

November 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Recent days have seen the fascists growing increasingly confident, launching attacks on left-wing and anti-cuts activists without fear of retaliation. Their courage has no doubt been bolstered by the encouragement of their legions of keyboard warriors, and several hours in the pub, but more importantly, the failure of anti-fascists to convincingly counter recent local demonstrations by the EDL and Infidels.

Birmingham

On Saturday 30th October the English Defence League returned to Birmingham, hoping to avoid a repeat of the previous occasions where their racist thugs were driven off the streets in chaos by militant anti-fascist mobilisations.

Considering recent EDL mobilisations of upwards of 1000 members, the Birmingham turn-out of 400 was poor, but certainly larger than any of their previous efforts in the town. As usual the ‘static’ march was kicked off with a march from the pubs in Broad Street, the ritual scuffling with police accompanied by volleys of fireworks and bottles.

Unlike previous EDL marches, there was no national counter-mobilisation, only a lacklustre regional effort. While UAF performed the usual trick of number inflation to claim 1000 people showed up, in fact the anti-fascist response never gathered more than 200-300 people. It was obvious to everyone there that the EDL march was significantly bigger.

As with Luton and other demonstrations, the local rally organised by UAF and faith groups posed reggae and bhangra music and country dancing as the way to stop the EDL. Clearly the event was the usual UAF compromise with local faith groups and so-called ‘community leaders’ – ensuring that any anti-fascist mobilisation did not make a serious effort to deny the fascists a platform for their racist propaganda.

With around 80 local Asian youth demonstrating more determination to confront the EDL than UAF, the potential was clearly there for a repeat of previous successes in driving the fascists off the streets. However the poor turn-out and uncombative nature of the UAF rally ensured that this was not to be the case.

The EDL will certainly chalk Birmingham up as another ‘success’ – they came, they marched, and they dispersed entirely free from interference by anti-fascists. It is clear the failed strategy of UAF is to blame. Counter-posing peaceful celebrations of multiculturalism to the threat of organised fascist violence means tactical victories for the EDL in the short term, but will lead to disaster in the longer term.

Wherever the fascists are allowed to organise openly and without fear of determined opposition, the confidence of their foot-soldiers grows, and racist violence accompanied by attacks on left-wing and anti-cuts activists increases, as the attacks in Newcastle and Liverpool demonstrates.

Liverpool

Despite the collapse of the BNP’s vote, and the bankruptcy of the party’s finances and ideology, scattered members still work up the courage to go ‘patrolling for leftys [sic]’, which they did in Liverpool in the run-up to their Party conference recently. They boasted on the internet of having found some “protesting outside the LMH building on Lime St/London Road.”

These ‘leftys’ were in fact former council workers who had been protesting since August after being sacked by an outsourced company.

Alongside the comments by ‘Snowy’ – leader of the East-East Infidels – that the fascists should “put all our efforts into opposing everything [left-wingers] do regardless of the issue at hand.”, it is clear that the EDL, BNP and various splinter groups have ditched the ‘peaceful’ or ‘anti-islamisation’ rhetoric to concentrate on the people they perceive to be the real enemies – working class people standing up for their rights and resisting racism, job cuts and austerity carried out in the interests of millionaire bankers and government ministers.

Newcastle

In the early hours of 30th October, around 30 fascists attacked the Occupy camp in the city centre, after a far-right demonstration earlier in the day.

After throwing bricks and bottles, and assaulting anyone they could find in the camp, one protester was hospitalised, while others were left with minor injuries.

This pre-meditated attack was planned by known fascists, with their facebook satuses encouraging people to turn up and ‘kill some cunts’.

While the EDL, and splinter groups such as the North-East Infidels do not yet have the numbers to drive organised anti-cuts activists off the streets, attacks such as this pose the urgent need for organised self-defence – democratically controlled and accountable to the movements and local communities.

The recent demonstration by the North-East Infidels in Leeds, which brought 300 fascists to City Square exposed the inability of UAF to mount effective regional opposition to the EDL. Opposition to fascism on the streets means organising to drive them out of town, denying them a platform for the violent racism and being honest about the need for self-defence and mass mobilisations to counter the rise of far-right violence.

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Fascists march in Leeds, socialists fail to unite

October 9, 2011 By 4 Comments

On Saturday 8th October the youth recreation of the historic Jarrow March passed through Leeds and a solidarity demonstration organised by Youth Fight for Jobs marched through the city centre demanding decent jobs and education for youth.

A week before the march, it was discovered that a nationalist demonstration against “multiculturalism, immigration and Islamic invasion” was also planned in Leeds on the day by the Infidels of Britain, an English Defence League splinter group. The Infidel rally was planned for City Square where the Jarrow March was originally scheduled to finish.

The Infidels have been denounced by the EDL, who see them as too ‘extremist’ even for the racists and holocaust deniers who make up the EDL leadership. The so-called Infidels have been described as neo-Nazis and white supremacists and stated on the Facebook event page for the rally that “EDL Jewish divisions and the like will not be tolerated on this demo”. Comments on the page made it clear that “gays and reds” would not be safe in Leeds on the day.

Unfortunately this clash of events provoked confusion on the left over how best to tackle the fascist threat while simultaneously supporting the Jarrow March which aimed to oppose the unemployment and poverty which fascism feeds off.

In the run-up REVOLUTION members made a concerted effort to argue that anti-fascists should join the Jarrow March, demonstrating how the issues of rising unemployment and the growth of the far-right are intrinsically linked. We also argued that we should make use of the large numbers expected for the Jarrow March by encouraging the stewards to take the march to the rally point of the Infidels in order to directly confront the fascists and ideally to prevent them from being able to march through the city, endangering black and Asian members of the public.

Regrettably SWP members decided to organise a last-minute Unite Against Fascism stall and leafleting on the high street at the time of the Jarrow March. We were very unhappy with this decision as we were concerned about numbers being drawn away from the Jarrow March and also about the safety of our comrades by splitting the anti-fascist forces and isolating themselves in the town centre. We stressed that we support anti-fascist stalls but that in the circumstance that there was already a march organised, the priority should be uniting the left in order to maximise numbers with the aim of ensuring the safety of anti-racists and creating a large and effective anti-fascist opposition on the streets.

Another difficulty we faced was that Youth Fight for Jobs had made the decision, after hearing about the plans of the Infidels, to abandon their original rally point in City Square and to instead head to Millennium Square, on the other side of the city. As such the entire route of the march avoided approaching anywhere near where the fascists were protesting, meaning that there was effectively no anti-fascist presence to directly counter the Infidels and to show them they aren’t welcome in Leeds.

We assembled at 12pm at Leeds University, although some Revolution members arrived early to try to mediate between UAF and YFJ to respectively persuade them to join the Jarrow March and to march to City Square to counter the fascists. Disappointingly both refused to budge. This sectarianism was not only unnecessary, but downright dangerous considering the circumstances. The case for unity was not helped by the fact that UAF closed the Facebook page for the anti-fascist rally after being asked several times to post details of the Jarrow March.

At the Jarrow March rally outside Leeds University, we listened to a rally in which Alicia B, a young SP member, Jane Atchinson, and Ryan Case from CWU and Shaun F, a Jarrow marcher and RMT member, spoke about the injustice of the Tory cuts and the bank bailout, congratulated the Jarrow marchers and made the demand decent jobs for youth, as well as demanding tax collection from the rich as a solution to the economic crisis. There were around a hundred people assembled.

We marched through the city, although we did not go down the high street where around thirty UAF supporters were assembled, and returned to the top of town instead of heading to the bottom where the Infidels were gathered. The atmosphere was very good, with a strong Revolution contingent coming out with the loud, political and amusing chants which caught on well. Most chants were anti-cuts, but we tried to include some anti-fascist chants as well. It was also good to see a sizeable contingent from Keep Our NHS Public. A downside was a derogatory comment that came from one of the speakers at the rally, Sean Figg, who denounced REVOLUTION members “what do you know, you’re just kids” when, at one point during the march, he overheard us discussing the possibility of turning the march towards where the fascists were protesting. As a trade union member who had just delivered a speech praising the young Jarrow marchers, it was appalling that he would then completely patronise an attempt by youth activists to organise within the march. REVOLUTION condemns this utterly unacceptable hypocrisy.

We arrived at Millennium Square where there was a short closing rally in which speakers congratulated everyone on the success of the day. Ian P of the Socialist Party spoke about anti-racism and the racist scapegoating caused by poverty and unemployment, as well as the need for unity on the left. Matt Meehan from PCS Young Members Network also spoke. Following this, REVOLUTION agreed to head to the high street to support our comrades from UAF and we brought a group of about twenty along with us. When we arrived, the bulk of the UAF supporters had already left although the few people remaining directed us towards where they had headed. We were not impressed by this as several of their members had promised earlier in the day to contact our members to update us with their plans. No doubt this was a calculated decision taken, because we had joined the Jarrow March instead of ‘their’ rally. However, when we caught up with them we were greeted with cheers.

There was a very strong police presence in City Square and shortly after joining the UAF demo we were all kettled. It was at this point that we were informed that there were 200-300 fascists in City Square, and that police were turning black and Asian people away from the area as they were “provoking” the fascist demonstrators.

Eventually the police started allowing small groups of the sixty or so people kettled to leave and at this point I had the opportunity to speak to some local Asian youth who had been wandering about the city and checking out what was happening in City Square, some of whom had also been on the Jarrow March demonstration earlier. They confirmed the rumour that police were moving on blacks and Asians from City Square and seemed cautious about walking around the city in a group. They also criticised the lack of organisation on the left and accused UAF of being sectarian by refusing to join the Jarrow March.

Finally, I returned to City Square to review the aftermath. The police kettle had been removed here while anti-fascists remained kettled on the high street and groups of Infidels were dispersing amongst the city. It was a disturbing sight.

In all it was a very eventful day with much that was positive, but it is nevertheless necessary to set out some criticisms of the organisation prior to the demo, and the actions of the left on the day. The good turn-out of Jarrow March supporters proves the lie to the Tories and journalists who claim the march has ‘fizzled out’ but there would have been significantly higher numbers if UAF had agreed to join us. Ultimately it was a mistake of theirs to divide the anti-fascists by holding their own stalls.

Equally the Jarrow March organised wasted of a large presence of anti-cuts and anti-racist activists by diverting the march away from City Square as we could have provided a decent challenge to the fascists. There can be no reason for this decision other than that the organiser wanted to ensure control over ‘their’ march and separate it from the UAF rally. This was no doubt reinforced by the mutual hostility displayed between the UAF and Socialist Party in debates on the Facebook pages in the run-up to the demo.

I feel strongly that we needed to at least march towards the square to give us the opportunity to assess the size of the fascist demonstration in order to make a decision about whether we had the power to confront them or not. I was proud of the hard work put in by REVOLUTION members throughout the week and on the day to encourage UAF to join the march and to push Youth Fight for Jobs to plan the march to intercept the fascists, even if ultimately we were unsuccessful in doing so.

Clearly, in spite of the short notice, the left should have organised an open, democratic meeting earlier in the week to plan how we could have the strongest possible anti-fascist presence on the day, but without this we were disorganised, divided and not as effective as we could have been.

The day by numbers:

Infidel demonstration = 150+

Jarrow march = 100+

UAF rally = 70+

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August 21, 2011 By 2 Comments

This article will look at how fascist organisations and ideas are inevitable under capitalism, and explain why liberal opponents of ‘no platform’ fail to understand either the role or reality of fascism in class society.

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Fight Racism

July 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The government has bailed out the bankers with £1trillion of our money. The economic crisis has thrown millions onto the dole.

 

Everywhere our wages, pensions, education and living conditions are under attack by a government of millionaires that is trying to make ordinary people pay for their crisis.

 

Racism is the tool of the bosses and politicians to divide resistance from workers to the mass unemployment and poverty that capitalism creates. The government blames low wages and unemployment on the same immigrants which bosses are allowed to ruthlessly exploit.

 

At a time when the government and entire ruling class is trying to offload the cost of the crisis onto the backs of working people and youth, their newspapers are whipping up a racist frenzy which blames everyone except the bankers for society’s problems.

 

REVOLUTION fights against racism and fascism in every school, workplace and community. We are committed to smashing the fascist EDL and BNP and organise to stop them wherever they organise.

 

We say to the million young people without jobs or education in Britain that the blame lies squarely with the bosses, the bankers, and the politicians. These people are the capitalists who use racism and nationalism to try and divide us at every opportunity so that they can continue to exploit us and rob us without resistance.

 

1% of the richest people in Britain own nearly 50% of the wealth. They keep it that way by keeping the majority of people divided and fighting amongst ourselves. Never before has it been so clear that whatever your race or religion, workers and young people are the ones who suffer the consequences of the bosses’ greed.

 

Our NHS, schools, pensions, jobs and education are under attack. Unless we unite to defend them they will disappear. The blame for the crisis lies squarely with the bosses, not the migrants, Muslims or public-sector workers.

 

The capitalist class is not divided along racist lines, and that is why they are the ones with the power.

 

Workers and young people need to organise as the class of exploited and dispossessed, to seize back the wealth which rightly belongs to all society. When black and white, Jewish and Muslim fight back together, then we can fight for a society free of oppression, where the wealth is shared amongst the millions, not the millionaires.

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EDL attack Leeds Rage Against Racism gig

June 19, 2011 By 2 Comments

Members of the English Defence League yesterday attempted to attack an anti-racist event at the Well pub in Leeds.

Organised by  local anti-racist activists, hundreds of people turned out for the Rage Against Racism all-dayer.

In a pathetic sequence of events, about a dozen EDL members showed up, and smashed a couple of windows before running off after some of them came off worse when gig-goers defended themselves.

While embarrassing this time, previous attacks on left-wing, anti-racist and trade union meetings have always been a feature of the EDL, and have been growing in number and violence in recent months.

Coming as it does just 3 weeks before the EDL demonstration in Halifax on the 9th July, this  attack is a worrying sign that the fascists’ confidence is increasing, despite the internal divisions and setbacks within the English Defence League.

Wherever the fascists attack us, we have the right to defend ourselves. Moreover, we need to counter the fascist threat wherever it tries to mobilise.

This means opposing – physically when necessary – the ‘right’ of the fascists to spread their poison through demonstrations which regularly end up in mini-pogroms against Asian areas.

The fascists’ propaganda has no purpose except to divide the working class, making it easier for the bosses to set one group of us against another, while they cut the jobs, pay and pensions of millions of working people regardless of race or religion.

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EDL splinters but fascist threat remains real

May 18, 2011 By 3 Comments

The fascists in the English Defence League have had to take a break from defending England from an invisible Islamist horde armed with Muslamic Ray-Guns to defend their own leaders from pissed-off members.

For nearly a year rumours and accusations have been flying around the organisation about the politics and activities of its leadership. Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) has been accused of handing over members to the police, stealing funds from sales of the group’s shitty merchandies to fund his cocaine habit, and even (laughably) supporting the IRA.

Large sections of the EDL’s membership are also angry with the Leaders’ ‘softly-softly’ approach. They don’t want a group which claims to be pro-multicultural, anti-racist, and pro-Israel. They don’t want a series of big demos with police kettles. They want to do what they did before they got ‘respectable’ after mainstream TV coverage – i.e. bricking Asian shops (Luton) and knifing  them in alleys (Bolton).

These are fundamentally people who are sick of the EDL trying to have its cake and eat it too- relying on old-school National Front boneheads to provide security and mobilise hundreds of violent racists, while at the same time appealing for new members on a liberal anti-Islamism basis (making the right noises about women’s rights, etc).

Trouble has been brewing for a while now. In Leicester hundreds of their own members didn’t actually attend the demo, but instead hung out in pubs until they were drunk enough to start attacking locals.

Former members have publicly attacked the leaders in Youtube videos and Facebook groups. More ‘traditional’ far-right groups like the NF have targeted EDL members for recruitment and are starting to get their arguments heard. It all came to a head at their recent Blackburn demo where the Dear Leader Tommy Robinson decided to denounce one of the activists who had been spreading rumours (probably true, but who cares) about him. After telling the crowd that he was responsible for ‘holding back their movement’ and ‘betrayed’ their cause, he seemed almost shocked that his thugs tried to beat the man to a bloody pulp. Needless to say the scrap turned into a full-blown fight with bottles, fists and feet flying all over the place. After the day had ended, 3 sections of the group (North East Infidels, North West Infidels, Scottish Defence League) had announced that they were no longer aligned with the main body of the EDL.

A whole range of issues have caused this split – power struggles, rumours and accusations, regional and football-firm loyalties – but they are finding a political expression as well. Using words far more militant and disturbing than the EDL leadership have ever used, the North West Infidels recently declared on their Facebook page that they would “cleanse the streets of filth”, that “peaceful protests don’t work… we’re just going to kick their fucking heads in.” It seems that the more hard-line fascists who oppose every ethnic minority’s existence and want to see the immediate use of violence to make England a whites-only country are splitting from their more modern and ‘multicultural’ allies.

Anti-fascists shouldn’t laugh at the EDL’s split or just sit back and watch it happen. Either section (or even both) could grow from the split as the two sides re-focus their different political messages and areas of activism and find new members. We can’t rely on one side destroying the other for us, or on the idea that they will both collapse due to further splits.

The time to drive these fascists off our streets is now. The Anti-Fascist movement needs real unity in action to stop these organised hooligans from regaining their strength and pushing forward. The fascists’ disunity can be turned into total defeat if we prepared to defend our demos, meetings, stalls, and streets from their attacks.

If we refuse to raise the argument for self-defence, then it will only happen is a spontaneous and disorganised way, as seen at many UAF demos, where local Asian youth have broken away to physically confront the fascists. We need to argue for this self-defence to be organised and democratically accountable to our communities and working-class organisations.

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Martin Smith: drop the conviction!

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The right to protest was attacked by the courts on Tuesday when anti-fascist leader Martin Smith was falsely convicted of assaulting a police officer. The Unite Against Fascism member was arrested at a demonstration outside the BBC in London in October last year

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