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In news sure to delight the incoming administration, this just arrived in my inbox. Intriguing that such a group still exists. More intriguing they have a press office capable of reacting to events. After Castro’s endorsement earlier in the campaign, and the closing “socialism” narrative of McCain’s campaign, surely the further reaches of the American right will see this most significant of endorsements as a sure sign of the ruin shortly to be wrecked on their country.

For immediate release:

COMMUNISTS WELCOME OBAMA VICTORY

Britain’s Communists welcome the election of Barack Obama as US President as a victory for the mass popular movement for progressive change.

‘It is a victory not only for a remarkable candidate, but for the growing forces for peace and social justice which supported him, including the trades unions and the US Communist Party’, Communist Party of Britain general secretary Robert Griffiths declared….

‘What America and the world needs is for the anti-war, anti-monopoly and environmental character of Obama’s winning alliance to predominate over big business interests in the coming struggle for political
influence in the White House’, Mr Griffiths concluded.