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'Hands off China' supports Games

The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) recently launched a campaign called "Hands off China" in central London with about 50 people attending it.

According to information given on the campaign's website www.handsoffchina.org, comrades who joined the rally included Harpal Brar, chairman of the CPGB-ML, Jack Shapiro, veteran British communist and old friend of China since the 1930s, Avtar Singh Jouhl, general secretary of the Indian Workers' Association (GB) (IWA GB), Kojo Amoo Gottfried, president of the Ghana-China Friendship Association and former ambassador of Ghana to China, and Keith Bennett, a specialist in Chinese politics and history.