Red Flag issue 16
Tories learn Brexit can’t please everyone
Learning the hard way
Brexit
Labour Party
Labour conference rejects vote on Brexit policy
It’s not undemocratic to oppose Brexit
Labour Party
A Labour Brexit? Definitely maybe
By Peter Main LABOUR’S CALL for a post-Brexit “transition period”, during which the UK would remain in the Single Market, has been presented as a clear-headed alternative to the government’s “constructive ambiguity”. Shadow Brexit Secretary […]
Racism
Tories prepare ground for post-Brexit migrant clampdown
By Jeremy Dewar AN 82 PAGE dossier, outlining the Tories’ proposed immigration legislation once the UK has left the European Union, has been leaked to The Guardian newspaper. It was marked “extremely sensitive”, and it […]
Racism
Shut down UK detention centres
By Jeremy Dewar BBC’S PANORAMA team have produced a powerful, courageous and shocking piece of investigative journalism that has blown the lid on Britain’s immigration detention centres. Its programme Undercover: Britain’s Immigration Secrets follows a […]
Red Flag issue 12
Brexit and Britain’s political crisis
The period since the 2015 general election has been a roller coaster ride for Britain’s political parties, with all of them forced to ditch their incumbent leaders at one point or another.
Marxist Theory
Lexit: The mirage of ‘Class Struggle in One Country’
“Triggering Article 50 opens the way to progressive policies outside the EU to control capital, raise public funds for infrastructure investment, enforce equal rights for migrant workers and radically cut or abolish VAT.” That […]
UK
May triggers Article 50
FREEDOM screams the hate Mail. The blinding Sun, “beams this message from our iconic White Cliffs to our neighbours. DOVER AND OUT”. The Telegraph roars JUBILATION. But nearly half the population in Britain as […]
Europe
Ireland: hard Brexit, hard border
Brexit will have enormous political and economic ramifications on both Northern Ireland and the Republic. Since the EU referendum, for example, Irish food and drink exports to the UK have fallen by €570 million, according […]
Labour Party
Vote against Article 50
JEREMY CORBYN has imposed a three-line whip on Labour MPs to vote for Theresa May’s Bill to start the Brexit process. We believe this is a seriously wrong position. Leaving the European Union will be […]