Brexit will not be “left”, but a step backwards
A statement arguing for a “left exit” from the European Union (EU) appeared in the Guardian on 17 February, signed by several trade unionists, a smattering of Stalinists and a number of others. The statement contains a collection of mostly true claims about the EU. It is true that the EU is an undemocratic institution wedded to neoliberal capitalism and complicit in attacks on workers’ rights and social conditions. It is true that “Fortress Europe” discriminates, often murderously, against non-European migrants, and that the EU has imposed brutal austerity on Greece and other European states...