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Jeremy Corbyn’s tightrope act

  • 29 April 20195 April 2020

The European Parliament Elections in the United Kingdom

by Andreas Thomsen, Head of Office RLS Brussels

At the time of writing, it is still unclear whether the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will actually participate in the 2019 European Parliament elections. If Prime Minister Theresa May manages to get the European Union Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with Brussels through the House of Commons, Brexit would stop the UK taking part.

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Refusing to take advantage of Britain’s troubles

  • 17 April 20195 April 2020

by David Jamieson

Brexit represents the latest manifestation of a deeper constitutional and political crisis affecting the British state, in which the Scottish question is a key factor. In this week’s guest post, David Jamieson outlines how the Scottish National Party (SNP) has responded to Brexit by rooting itself more firmly in political centrism and pursuing the objective of ‘independence’ within the existing economic and political order. This, he argues, has created the opportunity and necessity for a grassroots left-wing response.

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The eurozone’s ‘soulless market’ and its thuggish enforcers

  • 12 April 20195 April 2020

by Emma Clancy

The decision of EU leaders to grant Theresa May a long extension has kicked Brexit into the long grass. But with the European Parliament elections approaching, the structural, economic and political faultlines within the European system lie badly exposed. Emma Clancy explains how another eurozone recession and continued gains for the radical right are made more likely by European rules and their unequal enforcement by the EU institutions.

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The need for socialist decisiveness

  • 3 April 20195 April 2020

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by Stiofán Ó Nualláin & Seán Byers

Events have moved so fast in the past two weeks or so that has been difficult to keep pace with or make sense of them, especially since they have been accompanied by an escalation of rhetoric and the flailing of arms.

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