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Britain’s fishing crisis after Brexit

Posted on 20th April 2022 by International Socialism

The need to “seize back control of fishing rights in British waters” was pitched as a symbol of all that was wrong with the European Union by the Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum.1 The right-wing Brexit campaign, including Nigel… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Brexit, Ecology, Environment, European Union, Fish, fisheries, Fishing

The wages of Brexit

Posted on 16th December 2019 by International Socialism

The Seattle protests 20 years ago opened a new cycle of anti-capitalist struggle. Despite the influence of the autonomist politics summed up by John Holloway’s famous slogan—“Change the world without taking power”, the dominant currents have looked towards the state… Continue Reading →

Analysis Boris Johnson, Brexit, election, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Tory party

Socialists vs neoliberals and populists (a brief reply to Asher’s brief reply)

Posted on 17th October 2019 by International Socialism

I wish to thank Wayne Asher for replying to my response to his original article in this journal1 and to take this opportunity to respond once more and clarify further what I had meant to say. Wayne mentions the polarisation… Continue Reading →

Feedback Brexit, European Union

Riders of the storm

Posted on 7th October 2019 by Camilla

According to legend, in the balmy days before the First World War the Times once carried the headline: “Fog on Channel, Continent Isolated.” Now the fog that pervades the Brexit process leaves Britain isolated. This issue of International Socialism appears… Continue Reading →

Analysis Boris Johnson, Brexit, Climate change, Extinction Rebellion

Socialists and the Leave vote—a (brief) reply to Sean Leahy

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

It is encouraging that Sean Leahy has taken up the challenge of defending the Socialist Workers Party’s line on Brexit after my essay in this journal.1 It means we are now openly debating the defining issue of our age. Sound… Continue Reading →

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Betting on infinite loss

Posted on 24th June 2019 by Camilla

The 17th century Catholic thinker Blaise Pascal suggested that we imagine believing in God as a wager: Let us weigh up the gain and loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you… Continue Reading →

Analysis Brexit, Climate change, Tory party

Should the revolutionary left support Remain?

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

Wayne Asher’s article in the previous issue of International Socialism is a welcome intervention in the debate about the revolutionary left’s position on the European Union.1 It avoids some of the more outlandish claims of the Remain camp in not… Continue Reading →

Feedback Brexit, The European Union

Remain and replace—a socialist case

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

Alex Callinicos correctly asserts that “British capitalism is…heavily ­dependent on access to European markets”.1 Indeed, some 60 percent of British exports find their way into European markets. There is no doubt that Brexit has unleashed the most serious crisis for… Continue Reading →

Feedback Brexit, The European Union

Shambling towards the precipice

Posted on 8th April 2019 by Camilla

Through a fog of parliamentary manoeuvres, the British state is shambling towards a no-deal Brexit, crashing out of the European Union without any transitional arrangements agreed on. Maybe this will be averted thanks to Theresa May’s last-minute approach to Jeremy… Continue Reading →

Analysis Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May

In a hole and still digging: the left and Brexit

Posted on 2nd January 2019 by Camilla

“The fighting party of the advanced class need not fear mistakes. What it should fear is persistence in a mistake, refusal to admit and correct a mistake out of a false sense of shame”.1 Thus Lenin, writing on the eve… Continue Reading →

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