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The internationalist case against the European Union
Callinicos, Alex
http://isj.org.uk/the-internationalist-case-against-the-european-union/Date Written: 2015-10-05 Publisher: International Socialism Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX19549 For the first time in a generation Britain will vote on its membership of the European Union. How to vote in that referendum is a difficult choice for anyone on the left. Since the 1990s the anti-EU camp has been dominated by the chauvinist and racist right, initially on the Thatcherite wing of the Tory party, but now enjoying separate and increasingly powerful representation in the shape of the UK Independence Party. But anyone who contemplates therefore voting Yes in the referendum is confronted with the reality of the EU as a neoliberal club currently busy nailing the people of Greece to the cross of austerity. Subject Headings |