THE adage that there are decades when nothing happens and weeks where decades happen probably needs updating after the last 24 hours.
Hostility and antipathy towards the EU as an institution has been growing as its neoliberal character has become more and more evident.
In France a poll just last week showed 61 per cent of the population are hostile to the EU. For those in the labour movement looking for an example of how to defend the small number of individual labour rights claimed to be guaranteed by EU statute need look no further than across the Channel for an example.
Young Communist League general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS says the far right are filling a vacuum created by Labour’s abandonment of working-class interests — we have to give our class a better offer
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
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT


