Vol. 80/No. 23      June 13, 2016

 

Communist League: Vote Leave, oppose UK imperialism

 

The following statement was issued by Jonathan Silberman for the Communist League in the United Kingdom.

The Communist League in the U.K. is calling for a vote against EU membership, while opposing the British nationalist demagogy of both the Remain and Leave campaigns.

Britain’s capitalist rulers have used membership in the European Union and its predecessors from the outset to strengthen their hand in pressing down wages and job conditions of the working class at home and weakening our unions. They rely on the EU to bolster their imperialist interests against oppressed peoples of the semicolonial world, and to boost British capital’s position in fighting for profitable markets against imperialist rivals in Europe, North America, and the Pacific.

Working people in other EU member states — our brothers and sisters — from Germany to Greece, face the same types of attacks from the exploiting classes and governments in those countries.

In opposing the capitalist rulers in the U.K. and voting to leave the EU, the Communist League rejects the reactionary “British sovereignty” banner of the Leave campaigns of Boris Johnson and UKIP, which appeal to working people to subordinate ourselves to the rule of British capitalists.

Workers have no interest in supporting Cameron’s deal, which serves the interests of the U.K.’s ruling families. Backing pro-EU campaigners such as Corbyn, who falsely claim that a “social Europe” benefits workers, deals a blow to the working class and unions.

Independent working-class political action means organizing solidarity with union and other workers’ struggles here and around the world. It means fighting for immediate demands to unite and defend workers from efforts by the employers and government to make workers pay for the devastating impact of today’s global capitalist depression and serve as cannon fodder in London’s wars and military interventions.

Join the Communist League in advancing a course to forge a party that will mobilize working people in revolutionary struggle for a workers and farmers government.
 
 
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