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Post by anarchoicarus on Jun 24, 2016 21:36:08 GMT
I understand that the UK has recently voted to leave the EU. As we have seen that some of the economy has taken a turn for the worse. But there were also benefits. Just asking for opinions and more info on its effects.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2016 16:16:26 GMT
As I understand it the EU is extremely (economically) liberal and more or less forces its member states to implement various austerity measures as well as weaken workers' rights, which is why a lot of leftists, particularly far leftists systematically oppose it. However, a big thing I've seen a lot of anarchists point out is that above all the brexit vote was a huge victory for the far-right wing of the British conservative party, and has given it a democratic mandate to not only weaken the position of the less wealthy even further, regardless of the influence of the EU, but also conduct various forms of xenophobic and otherwise discriminatory politics. So as I've come to understand it, brexit has and will be, to the degree that it can be predicted at this point, a net negative for the working class and indeed the majority of the people living in the UK.
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