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Farewell bellends, hello struggle
The twin vom-fests of liberal tears in the EU parliament and poundshop patriotism in Parliament Square as we left the EU are nothing but a prelude to international class war, writes REUBEN BARD-ROSENBERG
Farage and friends on Brexit Day
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
AS THE European parliament held its penultimate session prior to Brexit, all of the phoneyness that has surrounded Britain’s departure seemed to crystallise into a single exchange. It began with Farage telling us that there was a battle going on “between globalism and populism” and that he was on the side of the latter.
This comes to us as surprising news. This, after all, is the former banker who got rich from the unfettered movement of capital. The politician who pushed for Brexit, not out of opposition to Europe’s neoliberal economic rules, but precisely on the grounds that Britain could pursue even freer trade outside of the bloc, and subject British workers to an even nastier race to the bottom.
Farage is about as averse to globalism as he is to impersonating a lobster with anger management issues.
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