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EU-afstemning
7. juli 2016 - 17:35

Den britiske venstrefløj og EU-afstemning juni 2016 / Brexit and the Left

23. juni 2016 afholdt Storbritannien folkeafstemning om EU-medlemskab (Brexit). Vi har her samlet en række artikler med hovedvægt på den britiske venstrefløjs diskussioner om afstemningen (ja, nej, undlader, boycot). Plus kommentarer efter afstemningen.

On 23 June there was a referendum in UK on the EU membership (Brexit). This is a collection of the debates among the British left on Brexit. Incl editorials and comment after the referendum.

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Leksikale, sites + på dansk

Modkraft.dk

  • Emneord: EU -  Brexit - Daxit
  • Brexit og venstresidens krise. Af Asbjørn Wahl (Blog, 3. september 2016). "Venstresida, med sine illusjoner, (har) satt seg i en situasjon der de verken er i stand til å organisere de misnøyde til politisk motstand, eller å gi misnøyen et politisk uttrykk."
  • Hvad mener Enhedslisten egentligt? Af Leif Donbæk Thomsen (Blog, 8. juli 2016). "Enhedslistens principprogram er meget klar i spyttet ... (men) onde tunger ville måske endda kalde det direkte uigennemskueligt, hvad Enhedslisten egenligt mener."
  • Er der et liv efter EU? Af Rinja Ronja Kari (Blog, 7. juli 2016). "Folkebevægelsen vil indsamle gode ideer og tanker om, hvordan verden ser ud efter et dansk exit fra EU."
  • Seks myter i Brexit-debatten. Af Tobias Clausen (Blog, 7. juli 2016). "(Jeg) forsøger at aflive nogle af de mest udbredte myter og misvisende historier om det britiske nej."
  • EU-hønen og nationalisme-ægget. Af Louise Pedersen (Blog, 7. juli 2016). "EU er ikke den eneste størrelse i verden, der skaber fremmedhad og intolerance ... (men) i Europa er EU for hovedparten den høne, der lægger nationalisme-æggene."
  • Vær Solidarisk - forlad EU. Af Margit Kjeldgaard (Blog, 6. juli 2016). "Verden er større end EU, og international solidaritet er en god grund til at forlade EU."
  • "Ud af EU": handlingslammende nationalisme. Af Steen Gottlieb (Blog, 2. juli 2016). "Enhedslistens strategi ... er nationalistisk, og partiet er derved afmægtigt parkeret i en blindgyde ..."
  • Brexit handler om protest, frygt og politisk elite. Af Peter Kenworthy (1. juli 2016). "Kompleksiteten i årsagerne og situationen, der førte til Brexit er noget mindre sort og hvid."
  • Alternativet til EU. Af Astrid Vang Hansen (Blog, 29. juni 2016). "Kravet om en folkeafstemning om EU-medlemskab må ikke stå alene."
  • Drop illusionerne! EU kan ikke forandres indefra. Af Rina Ronja Kari (Blog, 28. juni 2016). "... udviklingen er kun gået i retning af mere EU-integration og mere politik til skade for arbejdstagere, velfærd og miljø."
  • Politik! - tak! Af Pernille Frahm (Blog, 28. juni 2016). "Det er ikke lykkedes gennem det europæiske samarbejde at skaffe folk økonomiske og sociale rettigheder af betydning ..."
  • Kan Brexit være progressivt og en sejr for venstrefløjen? Af Yannick Harrison (27. juni 2016). "Brexit var aldrig en venstreorienteret kamp mod demokratiske problemer i EU, men en kampagne på et racistisk grundlag."
  • Brexit er et wake up call for EU-eliten. Af Nikolaj Villumsen (24. juni 2016). "I går var det demokratiet, som talte i Storbritannien ... Den britiske befolkning ønsker at være fri af EU."
  • Tanker efter Brexit. Af Pelle Dragsted (Blog, 24. juni 2016). "Det er ikke hverken nationalistisk eller højrepopulistisk at ønske, at flere beslutninger bliver taget tæt på én selv i nationale parlamenter ..."
  • Brexit - et jivende slag mod Europas lønmodtagerklasse. Af Steen Gottlieb (Blog, 19. juni 2016). "Brexit betyder deregulering og bliver en styrkelse de mest aggressive dele af kapitalistklassen."
  • »EU er en klub for arbejdsgiverne«. Af  Tobias Clausen (17. juni 2016). Interview med Karlson Lingwood, sømand og ledelsesmedlem i fagforeningen RMT, der organiserer over 80.000 britiske transportarbejdere.
  • Forlader briterne EU? Af Christian Juhl (Kontradoxa, 15. juni 2016). "Danskerne skal have mulighed for at stemme, ligesom briterne."
  • Når medierne dumper detektor-testen. Af Tobias Clausen (Blog, 13. juni 2016). Om ECD's Brexit-rapport og mediernes økonomiske skræmmekampagne. 
  • Situationen i Storbritannien er gift for venstrefløjen. Af Mads Wilmann (Blog, 23. maj 2016). "Nejsiden af venstrefløjen har (...) et antiprojekt (ud af EU-siden), og dette vil i GB sandsynligvis blive opslugt af meget stærkere højrenationale og konservative kræfter ..."
  • EU i krise: Derfor er radikal forandring mulig. Af Torkil Lausen (4. maj 2016). "EU modstanden er ikke en modstand mod kapitalisme, men et forsvar af nationale privilegier i en ulige verden."
  • I Storbritannien stemmer de progressive også nej. Af Rina Ronja Kari (Blog, 24. februar 2016). "Den bevægelse (i Storbritannien), som ønsker et nej på et progressivt og demokratisk grundlag, skal vide, at de ikke står alene."

Autonom Infoservice

Henrik Herløv Lund (site)

  • Læren af Brexit-debatten: EU selv skyld i modstand pga. manglende politisk effektivitet og demokratisk underskud (pdf) (Kritiske Analyser, 23. juni 2016, 5 s.). "... voldsomheden af Brexit-debatten (peger) på nogle store svagheder og fejl ved EU ..."

Information.dk

Kritisk Debat

  • Brexit - en social protest. Af Inger V. Johansen (15. august 2016). "... kan det være med til at skabe en helt anden dagsorden og nye muligheder for en mere social udvikling i et kriseramt EU eller Europa? Eller er det ikke på tide at venstrefløjen bereder sig på et alternativ til EU?"
  • "Big business is bad politics". Af Jan Helbak (27. juni 2016). "Lexit (left exit) legitimerer højrepopulisternes nationalkonservative og autoritære sirenesang, og marginaliserer endnu engang venstrefløjen til fable om fantasifostret ..."

Politiken.dk

Revolution

Socialistisk Information

Videnskab.dk

Wikipedia.dk

 

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Sites & articles in English

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Wikipedia.org

Against the Current

  • Was Brexit a working-class revolt? By Kim Moody (Issue 184, September-October 2016). "If the EU is moving toward disintegration, so far at least it is doing so on the basis of a resurgence of rampant nationalism not a socialist or even social democratic future."

Counterfire

Critical Legal Thinking

  • Brexit as nostalgia for Empire. By Nadine El-Enany (19 June 2016). "The run up to the EU referendum has shown Britain for what it is. Woodwork: the washed-up bracken of the British Empire, and the ugly flotsam of its legacy of racism." With comments. 

Green Left Weekly

In Defence of Marxism

  • Section: EU
  •  Brexit vote sends shockwaves across European Establishment. By Alan Woods (24 June 2016). "The victory of Brexit does not mean a strengthening of the revolutionary or left-wing tendency as some deluded people imagine, but on the contrary, a victory for the forces of reaction ..."
  • The EU referendum and xenophobia: How to fight the Right. By Adam Booth (21 June 2016). "On the Leave side, the months leading up to this referendum have seen a ratcheting up of xenophobic and racist rhetoric ..." 
  • The delusions of Brexit (27 April 2016). "Daniel Morley looks at the nationalist delusions of the Brexit camp in the Tories and UKIP, and highlights the limitations of the arguments of left-wing Leave campaigners."
  • The crisis in Europe: What is the EU and where is it going? Part 1-3. By Josh Holroyd (15 February - 3 March 2016). "... Marxists stand for neither European nor British capitalism, but for a Socialist Britain as part of a Socialist Europe!"

International Socialism

  • Widening fractures. By Alex Callinicos (Issue 152, Autumn 2016, p.3-19). "The real problem lies in the disruption Brexit might cause to the global positioning of British capitalism and thereby to the dominant capitalist networks."
  • Why dis Britain vote Leave? By Charlie Kimber (Issue 152, Autumn 2016, p.21-42). "The British vote on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union was a bitter blow for the establishment, big business, the international financial institutions, the rich and the politicians."
  • David Cameron’s cunning plan goes awry. By Alex Callinicos (Issue 151, Summer 2016). "... an attempt to make sense of the situation in ignorance of whether or not the British people have rejected the EU." See updated, revised, and extended version: Brexit: a world-historic turn (27 June 2016).
  • The EU referendum: The case for a socialist Yes vote. By John Palmer (Issue 148, Autumn 2015). "The 'Balkanisation' of Europe would represent a historic defeat for human progress ..."
  • The internationalist case against the European Union. By Alex Callinicos (Issue 148, Autumn 2015). "How to vote in that referendum is a difficult choice for anyone on the left ... [but] there is a powerful internationalist case against the EU."

International Socialist Review

Jacobin: Reason in Revolt

  • Europe’s Left after Brexit (5 September 2016). "Former Greek finance minster Yanis Varoufakis responds to his critics and lays out DiEM25’s plan for resisting within the European Union."
  • An open letter to the British Left. By Stathis Kouvelakis (5 July 2016). "A Greek leftist on why British socialists shouldn't shy away from rejecting the European Union."
  • The Left after Leave. By Ed Rooksby (1 July 2016). "Brexit offered the Left bad choices, and its aftermath has emboldened a racist right. What do we do now?"
  • There is no Left Exit. By Ed Rooksby (22 June 2016). "We shouldn’t have illusions about transforming the EU from below. But a Leave vote would only strengthen the Right."
  • The Socialist case for Remain. By David Renton (22 June 2016). "It’s not clear that a Leave vote would make our tasks on the Left any easier."
  • The Socialist case for Leave. By Neil Davidson (22 June 2016). "The European Union provides internationalism for the bosses, not for workers. We should join the vote to leave it tomorrow."
  • Brexit and the Left. By Richard Seymour (22 June 2016). "The European Union is brutal and undemocratic — ignoring that just gives the Right more power."

Die Linke Berlin

Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Michael Roberts Blog: blogging from a marxist economist

  • The impact of Brexit (June 24, 2016). "Brexit in the long run may not make a huge difference to the health of British capitalism, but right now it could help accelerate a new global recession."
  • Brexit, China, the Fed and the global recession  (June 15, 2016). "The vote on Brexit has assumed a greater global significance than I originally thought."
  • Brexit: stay or leave? (March 24, 2016). "Leaving the EU would probably be marginally bad for British capital and there would be little or no gain for British Labour." 

Morning Star

MR Zine

New Left Review

  • Casting off? By Susan Watkins (Issue 100, July-August 2016, p.5-31). "How to assess the latest set-back for the European Union: the vote to leave by its second-largest state? Complex determinants of the Brexit protest ... met by single-minded condemnation of it by the global elite."

New Politics

  • Brexit: A victory for the populist right. By Barry Finger (June 25, 2016). "The reaction is, to put it bluntly, a toxic mix of little England racism and anti-establishment populism that, like all populisms, ransacks the grievances of the left and twists them into grotesque distortions."

The Project: A Socialist Journal

  • Brexit or international socialism? By Nick Wrack (May 1, 2016). " Here, I argue that the interests of the working class are best advanced by rejecting the arguments for Lexit/Brexit or abstention and voting to remain within the EU."

Red Pepper

RS21: Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century

Scottish Left Review

  • Exit stage left (Issue 92, March-April 2016). "Vince Mills puts the socialist case for leaving the EU."
  • Socialist case against leaving (Issue 92, March-April 2016). "Hugh Cullen says populist xenophobia, nationalism & heightened neo-liberalism will win if we leave the EU."

Socialism Today

  • Referendum revolt: Capitalist establishment shattered. By Peter Taaffe (Issue 200, July-August 2016). "The vote to leave the EU has rocked capitalist institutions - in Britain and internationally. It is yet another reflection of the anger at mass poverty and savage austerity ..."
  • Socialists and the EU referendum (Issue 90, July-August 2015). "Clive Heemskerk looks at how socialists should approach the in-or-out EU debate."

Socialist Democracy

Socialist Resistance

  • The UKIPisation of the Tory Party –The Brexit left in denial. By Alan Thornett (July 25, 2016). "Socialist Resistance argued for a remain vote on the basis that the referendum would be a carnival of reaction leading to a major shift to the right in British politics, and we have been right on both counts."
  • Brexit vote is a disaster, but the struggle goes on (June 24, 2016). "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."
  • The left debates the case for EU exit (March 25, 2016). "Alan Thornett reports on the London meeting on March 23 called by Counterfire and the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) in support of an exit vote in the EU referendum." With comments.

Socialist Review

  • After the leave vote: we can beat back racism and austerity. By Joseph Choonara (Issue 415, July-August 2016). "The vote was, above all else, a rebellion by working class people who feel they have had their lives torn apart by the ruling elite."
  • Down with miserabism. By Joseph Choonara (Issue 414, June 2016). "... much of the left have taken the mistaken and less understandable decision to back a Remain vote."
  • EU referendum: Should we stay or should we go? (Issue 404, July-August 2015). "Joseph Choonara argues that socialists should argue for a left wing No vote, despite the right wing dominating the campaign for a 'Brexit'.

 Socialist Worker

Socialist Workers Party (SWP)

SocialistWorker.org

Socialistworld.net

  • After the referendum. By Hannah Sell (24 June 2016). "Not only in Britain but across Europe many workers have been inspired by this vote against the bosses EU."
  • EU referendum. Editorial (The Socialist, 19 June 2016). "We urge a vote for exit on 23 June, which will strike a serious blow against the Tories and the capitalist class."

VersoBooks.com

  • The Brexit Crisis: A Verso Report. Edited by Verso Books (12 July 2016). An ebook available for free download: "Leading writers provide their thoughts on the EU referendum. Includes contributions from Étienne Balibar, William Davies, Akwugo Emejulu, John R. Gillingham, Peter Hallward, Laleh Khalili, Stathis Kouvelakis, Sam Kriss, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, Lara Pawson,  Wolfgang Streeck, and more."

Weekly Worker

  • Fear, confusion and delusions (Issue 113, 30 June 2016). "Left responses to the referendum result vary from despondency to total exuberance. Both are misplaced, argues Paul Demarty."
  • The in-out kabuki dance (Issue 1102, 14 April 2016). "James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists says a passive boycott is not as good as an active boycott."
  • Both sides are reactionary (Issue 1101, 7 April 2016). "Eddie Ford calls for an active boycott."
  • A carnival of reaction (Issue 1095, 25 February 2016). "Neither side in the EU referendum campaign deserves leftwing support, argues Paul Demarty."

Workers' Liberty

World Socialist Web Site

 

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