Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Another Europe is Possible, IVANOVA Alena
[Republished from Socialist Resistance]The far right has grown in both numbers and political confidence since the Brexit referendum. Ukip, the party founded with the aim of making Brexit happen, is now in alliance with the new far right which Tommy Robinson personifies and they are jointly (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain), STOWE Andy
Statement from Socialist Resistance.
1. We called for a vote to Remain in the referendum in 2016 as the Leave campaign was totally dominated by a nationalist and xenophobic reaction to globalisation. We did so in the knowledge that the EU is an undemocratic neoliberal institution, and is a (…)
, by BUTLER James
Theresa May emerged from her five hour cabinet meeting yesterday evening looking like she’d given up. She couldn’t muster any enthusiasm for the deal she’d just pushed through a fractious cabinet, describing it as one might an unwanted birthday gift – not ‘good’, just the best she could get. Her (…)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
The problem is, we know a lot less than is often claimed about how bad. As Gramsci once put it, anyone making predictions has a programme which they are acting on. That, obviously, applies to me, and to what follows.
These are the main possibilities as far as I know. There will either be some (…)
, by DAVIES Alan
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. (…)
, by ELLIOTT Larry
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. (…)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
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 (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain)
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 (…)
, by MASON Paul
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 (...)
, by ELGOT Jessica
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 (…)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
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 MASON Paul
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 (…)
, by WHYMAN Philip B.
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 of (…)
, by CATO Molly Scott
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 (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain)
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 (…)
, by FAULKNER Neil
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 (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain)
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 (…)
, by CHESSUM Michael, COOPER Luke, IVANOVA Alena
It’s increasingly clear that there is no such thing as a ‘good Brexit’, let alone a ‘people’s’ or ‘left’ Brexit – and this reality is gradually becoming obvious to millions of people in Britain. Brexit, after all, has always been a right wing project. Ardent eurosceptics from Nigel Farage to (…)
, by THORNETT Alan
To say that last week was a remarkable week in politics does not do it justice, writes Alan Thornett.
Theresa May travelled to Brussels at the start of the week to try to persuade Michel Barnier and the EU Commission to agree that ‘sufficient progress’ had now been made—regarding the (…)
, by FAULKNER Neil
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 (…)
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