Since the EU elites rejected May’s Chequers proposals on the basis that they breach the fundamental principles of the EU; i.e. the internal market and free movement, the likelihood of a disorderly (no deal) exit from the EU has increased along with support for a second referendum on the issue. (...)
It’s easy to see why Corbyn and McDonnell are reluctant to put a remain option on a new ballot
Politics was once a simple affair. On one side were the lefties, unhappy with the status quo and agitating for something different. On the other side were the conservatives, suspicious of change. When (...)
You keep waiting for it all to fall apart. It seems too tentative. How could this have come from nowhere, and yet be seemingly unstoppable? How many chicken coups, smears, dire summers of pitiful silly-season coverage, have we had? This summer felt like the worst in terms of the sheer (...)
You’ll have noticed that some of the supermarkets have already started displaying Christmas merchandise writes Andy Stowe. You might even have begun mentally drafting your letter to Santa saying “please bring me a Labour government with Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister. I’d also really like to have (...)
The offer of another Brexit vote and support for a Norway-style deal could be a game-changer in Britain’s next general election
Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake,” tweeted Labour’s international trade spokesman, Barry Gardiner, last week, quoting Napoleon. Like most of Labour’s frontbench he had opted not to engage with Theresa May’s post-Salzburg strop, preferring to let the Tories tear themselves apart unmolested.
But Napoleon also said that when the enemy is in disarray you should (...)
Constituency groups could force Jeremy Corbyn to agree to a ‘people’s vote’ at the conference
Few people in Labour have heard of Michael Chessum, the self-described “hard-left, hard-remain” campaigner, who concedes he is an unusual frontman for a campaign that could transform the Labour party’s (...)
Theresa May was not schooled for the EU’s brutal rebuff today. She expected some yield in the EU’s position, instead they brutally mugged her. Her press conference, once she’d given a fluent reading of prepared remarks, was horrendous.
She had been led to expect otherwise by Whitehall. She was (...)
By promising a Norway-style deal followed by a public vote, the party can unite the country and move on.
The European parliament’s vote to begin Article 7 proceedings against Hungary, though welcome, is a reminder that, even if Britain does veer away from Brexit at the last moment, it will have (...)
Two years on from the vote for Brexit, the process of withdrawal remains mired in debate about the kind of relationship an independent UK should be seeking with the European Union and the wider world. With the date for departure moving ever closer, there is a desperate need for a clear vision (...)
The rightwinger has admitted any ‘Brexit dividend’ may take 50 years. Is his hardline position linked to personal gain?
‘Jacob Rees-Mogg has defended the use of tax havens.’ Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In line with other Brexiters, Jacob Rees-Mogg seems to have abandoned (...)
Another Europe Is Possible (AEIP) has produced two model resolutions which makes the left case in Labour for opposing Brexit. Socialist Resistance is encouraging readers of this site who are in the Labour Party to propose it at your next branch meeting if you have one in August or early (...)
Around 15,000 fascists demonstrated in support of Tommy Robinson on 9 June 2018, writes Neil Faulkner. The overwhelming majority of them are likely to have voted Leave in the EU Referendum two years ago. Around a quarter of a million people demonstrated against Trump on 13 July 2018. The (...)
In retrospect, writes Andy Stowe, the high point of Theresa May’s career as prime minister could turn out to have been her October 3rd 2017 speech . She ground to a halt due to a coughing fit and her sign disintegrated behind her back while she ploughed on. Her parliamentary majority had (...)
Neil Faulkner responds to the latest attack on free movement in the Huffington Post.
The Lexit argument is now beyond logic and reason. It is the mistaken argument that will not be silenced. The dog barks but the caravan moves on; only in this case, the dog digs itself deeper and deeper into (...)
Former Greek finance minster Yanis Varoufakis responds to his critics and lays out DiEM25’s plan for resisting within the European Union.
In just eleven months, the Greek “Oxi” and Brexit shook up both the European Union and Europe’s left.
Exasperated by the EU’s mixture of authoritarianism and (...)
Since the Greek trauma – both the neo-colonial diktat from the Euro-group and agreement by Tsipras to submit despite the popular OXI – the European radical left has debated “Plans B” without any strategic or tactical consensus. The referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) is the bitter illustration of (...)
Within a year two populations of Europe – one in the south, the other in the north – have voted against the EU and its policy. They did this out of entirely different motives and with different aims. Whereas on 5 July 2015 the Greek OXI was directed against the austerity dictates of the Troika (...)
A Greek leftist on why British socialists shouldn’t shy away from rejecting the European Union.
Dear friends and comrades,
To a foreigner who has been living and working in the United Kingdom for the last sixteen years, the immediate post-referendum situation appears highly paradoxical. It (...)
Greetings! Sharing with you 2 write ups from the AEPF11 Ulaanbaatar Night discussion on BREXIT last July 5. Some photos are posted on AEPF facebook page.
This open discussion was attended by about 60 networks from Asia and Europe, with discussants Andy Rutherford (UK), Roland Kulke (Belgium), (...)
Offensive against the EU from left
The majority for Britain leaving the EU was an expression of class revolt against the EU of the upper class. This provides a good starting point for the Left to become the head of a rebellion against the EU, which has been the hub of social dumping, erosion (...)
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