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 (...)
1. The result of the British referendum is a further stage in the crisis of the EU after Greece, the migrants’ crisis. A large majority of voters in England and Wales has voted for “Brexit”, imposing”Leave" on the whole of the United Kingdom despite the contrary vote in Scotland and the North of (...)
The UK referendum vote to leave the European Union has upended politics from one end of the continent to the other—nowhere more so, of course, than Britain, where Conservative Party Prime Minister David Cameron has announced his resignation, and a scheme to unseat left-wing Labour Party leader (...)
Now neo-Nazis are being given a voice on the news. Britain must guard against extremists seducing others with racist views.
One of the genies uncorked by the referendum on the EU has been low-lying fascism and extreme nationalism. This is not to say that all leavers were racists. Far from it. (...)
Since the EU referendum I have collated more than 100 racist incidents. Politicians and the media are fuelling this fire.
When Shahesta Shaitly asked a cabbie in the Midlands at the weekend: “Why did you vote leave?” she was told: “To get you lot out of here.”
Her case is unfortunately not (...)
June 24th was a dark morning. Colleagues at school arrived shell shocked at a result no one expected. Friend after friend asked in worried tones what the result would mean. Meshed with disbelief were two common fears: that Britain had crashed into economic chaos and that a previously hidden, (...)
Taking a position on the EU Referendum was not easy. The in/out choice was essentially an argument inside the political and corporate elite about what was best for British capitalism. We do not wish to be ruled by either the City of London or the European Central Bank. Both are run by bankers. (...)
The British electorate issued a stunning rebuke to the establishment by demanding, by a surprisingly respectable margin, withdrawal from the European Union. Just weeks ago, this outcome was considered remote. For David Cameron and the Conservative mainstream, it was – or so it seemed – a clever (...)
BREXIT VOTE IS A DISASTER, BUT THE STRUGGLE GOES ON
Socialist Resistance statement on the result of the EU referendum
The Brexit vote to leave the EU is a victory for the right-wing xenophobes and a disaster for the struggle against austerity in Britain. It is a victory for racism and a (...)
BREXIT VOTE SPELLS POLITICAL CRISIS IN SCOTLAND AND UK
Commenting on the Brexit vote SSP National Spokesperson Colin Fox said:
“This result first and foremost represents an unprecedented rejection of the anti-democratic, neo-liberal EU by one of its most significant and powerful constituent (...)
Left Unity Executive Committee has issued the following statement on the outcome of the EU Referendum:
Left Unity deplores the Leave outcome of the EU Referendum. This referendum came from pressure from the far right – driven by anti-immigration sentiment, fuelled by racism. This has been the (...)
In anticipation of tomorrow’s referendum on the European Union, Jacobin is publishing a series of views discussing the nature of the European project and the respective left arguments for both Leave and Remain. The European Union is brutal and undemocratic — ignoring that just gives the Right (...)
On the question of whether Britain should leave the European Union, the British left has been nearly uniform in supporting “Remain.” This option seems especially attractive since those advocating “Leave” on the right range from open racists concerned with the recent growth of immigration to (...)
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