My position on Brexit was that workers should have abstained in a dispute between their bosses over how to make workers pay for their crisis.
Both British and German bosses know that their crisis requires the smashing of all working class resistance. British bosses cannot be better for workers than any other bosses. There is no way that workers can vote to ‘take back their country’. It never was their country and never will be. Nationalism is the last refuge of the capitalist scoundrel.
Better to have backed the French worker uprising, and take the side of Greeks who want to declare independence from German imperialism. These strike out with class independence and do not retreat into a protectionist nationalism or EU social imperialism. The success of these would prove that international finance capital embedded in the EU can be defeated and open the road to the breakup of the EU and its replacement by a United Socialist States of Europe.
Since the British left took sides in Brexit it is too late to undo that immediate damage. We have to prevent the Brexit from being used further as a weapon of divide and rule.
That means planning a way forward that includes putting Labour into power under the Corbyn left wing to prove that even a left wing social democracy cannot serve the class interests of workers, any more than the French Socialists or Spanish Socialists can.
The only way workers interests can be served is to form mass workers parties united internationally to strike and occupy workplaces, and build workers militias and communes, so that a real international socialist movement led by a revolutionary international party can put an end to dying capitalism and give birth to a world socialist society.
Comrade Dave Brownz is TDB’s Marxist blogger
