Brexit: A Different Democracy, A Different Future
by Christopher Black, via New Eastern Outlook The historic Brexit vote marks a victory of the working people over the capitalist elites who have used the European Union as...
Brexit: A Workers’ Response to Oligarchs, Bankers, Flunkies and Scabs
by James Petras, July 14, 2016 Introduction: The European Union is controlled by an oligarchy, which dictates socio-economic and political decisions according to the interests of bankers and multi-national...
Avaaz once again telling us what the Establishment wants us to think?
Any doubt that might have remained about how a certain section of the elite want to spin Brexit is now put to rest as that most entirely fake of...
Collapsing Constructions: Reflections on British Exit
by Wolgang Streeck, via VersoVerso This essay was first published in Die Zeit on 30 June. Translated by David Fernbach. We shall have to wait and see whether German “Europeans” will...
Has Brexit triggered an anti-democractic "Color Revolution"?
The Prime Minister didn't want it. The Chancellor didn't want it. The Queen didn't want it. The opposition didn't want it. The President of the United States didn't want...
The Ashcroft Poll – Is This Why Jeremy Corbyn Must Go?
by Rachel Bridgeland from truepublica.org.uk Jeremy Corbyn is right to urge us to see through the media’s attempts to divide us. The media has encouraged those who voted to...
The Collapse of Western Democracy
by Paul Craig Roberts Democracy no longer exists in the West. In the US powerful private interest groups, such as the military-security complex, Wall Street, the Israel Lobby, agribusiness...
The ineptitude of the failed Corbyn coup
The most interesting thing about the failed anti-democratic attempt to bully Jeremy Corbyn into resigning as Labour leader (just 10 months after he was elected with the biggest democratic...
Two views on Brexit
We present here two widely divergent perspectives on the meaning and the prospects opened up by Brexit, both originally published by Defend Democracy. The starkness of the contrast –...
Putin is Weaponizing Popularity: Newsweek is not Amused
by Mark Chapman, a.k.a. Kremlin Stooge “The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to...
Did the UK Independent actually say democracy isn't working?
By Catte Yes. It did. or at least it published a WaPo piece (by “Emily Badger”), which says exactly that, albeit in slightly more MiniTrue wording. “Brexit reminds us...
Finland: tough choices to make after the Brexit
by Editeur After the UK vote in favor of the Brexit, panic seems to emerge on the Finnish economic playing field: according to YLE, on the first day of...
New Labour emerges from hibernation sooner than expected…and unready
The unwillingness, on behalf of the Labour right, to unite with the rest of the party and attack the Conservatives at a time when they are politically divided and...
Why the British said no to Europe
by John Pilger The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and...
Graun finally admits the sad truth about the " 2nd referendum petition"
Well, the Guardian has – finally – acknowledged the reality of the hapless and discredited “2nd referendum petition”, but only after an indecent interval, and when the Telegraph, HuffPo...
Guardian Watch: Insults fly in post-Brexit hysteria
The world is still reeling from the referendum results - there is uncertainty in the air, real uncertainty, a rare creature in the modern era of controlled media consensus...
The 2nd referendum "petition" is wide open to fraud
The UK Parliament online petition for a second referendum, currently containing upwards of a million alleged signatures is open to almost unlimited fraud, and likely worthless. Although we might...
If at first the PTB don't succeed….just have another referendum
We know how the EU responds when referendums don't go the way they're supposed to. Yes, that's right, they either ignore it, or insist on a second vote (and...
How Left Remain Campaigners Sold Out the Working Class: Lesser Evilism in the EU Referendum
by Tom Barker There are few illusions about the reformability of the EU on the left, even amongst those campaigning for Remain. Paul Mason has stated that “it is...
Beware the Liberal Jabberwocky on the Topic of Brexit
by Luciana Bohne The Brits have voted for Brexit. How will the more “enlightened” liberal Eurocrats in Bruxelles spin the debacle and save the financial autocracy of the European...
