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UNITE dramatically ramped up pressure on Labour yesterday with a call for an in-out vote on the EU following the 2015 election.
Delegates at the huge Labour funder’s Liverpool conference fiercely debated an executive position urging that British people be asked their view, becoming the first big Labour-affiliated union to do so.
The motion condemned the bloc for imposing “great suffering on the people of Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere,” attacking labour rights and forcing through privatisation policies.
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
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From the battlefields of Spain to today’s campaigns for peace and justice, the spirit of the International Brigades continues to inspire international solidarity across the labour movement, says MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT