For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum!

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Statement of the Socialist Equality Party

British section of the International Committee of the Fourth International

1. The June 23 referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union raises issues of immense international importance. The outcome will have implications for workers not only in the UK, but far beyond its shores.

2. The Socialist Equality Party urges workers and young people to boycott the referendum. The Remain and Leave campaigns are both headed by nationalist forces that stand for greater austerity, brutal anti-immigrant measures and the destruction of workers’ rights. Their differences are over how best to defend the interests of British capitalism against its European and international rivals under conditions of economic slump and the escalation of militarism and war. (more…)

News

UK teacher shortages on the rise
19 March 2016
The failure of the UK government to achieve its target for teacher recruitment is symptomatic of the crisis arising from dictatorial conditions and extreme governmental pressure.
The pseudo-left’s nationalist Leave campaign in the UK Brexit referendum
19 March 2016
Against the pseudo-left, the Socialist Equality Party intervenes in the referendum campaign in order to clarify the fundamental historical and programmatic issues raised by the struggle against auster
The pseudo-left’s nationalist “Leave” campaign in the UK Brexit referendum
18 March 2016
The Socialist Party has played the central role in glossing over the nationalist opposition to immigration on the part of Trade Unionists Against the European Union and its predecessors.
UK Budget: Austerity for workers pays for tax breaks for corporations and the rich
17 March 2016
Conservative Chancellor George Osborne’s budget, announced Wednesday, dramatically slashes the tax rate on corporate profits and capital gains.
Glasgow City Council workers strike against cuts and poverty wages
17 March 2016
Another round of spending cuts imposed by the Scottish National Party government on behalf of the Conservative central government is likely to cost as many as 15,000 job losses.
Rough-sleeping on the rise in England
16 March 2016
London is particularly affected, with rough-sleepers in the capital constituting 26 percent of the country’s total.
UK: Families of missing demolition workers campaign for their rescue
16 March 2016
A campaign has been set up by the families of two Rotherham men after rescue attempts were called off within a couple of days of a power station’s collapse.
English National Opera chorus to strike
15 March 2016
The action was announced on the steps of the headquarters of Arts Council England.
Shadow Chancellor McDonnell pledges UK Labour Party to austerity
15 March 2016
McDonnell said ensuring Labour’s credibility on the economy to big business was “the struggle of a generation.”
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn deletes criticisms of EU from his web site
14 March 2016
There is nothing that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn once proclaimed as an issue of political principle that he will not jettison.

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