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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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