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In reply to the discussion: The EU doesn't protect workers' rights - it has destroyed them [View all]AntiBank
(1,339 posts)and the left in general in the UK and so many other countries. Part of the EU substructural undertow is the pushing out and disempowering of the organic democratic socialist left and the co-opting the centre left to turn neoliberal in both outlook and practise. This is similar (to a point) to what is being done in the USA through its internal systemic controls.
Many of the very forces that are empowering and animating the far right are coming directly as the result of EU policies and actions, aided by the military force global projections of the US/UK/NATO regime which cause both blowback and forced mass refugee-based immigration fleeing their empiric war theatres, plus the formation of an ever larger economic underclass across all ethnic spectrums.
The Tories will muck things up, as they always do (with or without being in the EU) and the left will take back the government, this time unencumbered from corporatist externalities imposed from Brussels. Look at how effectually and quickly the EU has whipsawed a superb left party (SYRIZA in Greece) into submission.