Across the world, reactionary forces are on the march. In America, Donald Trump is intent on closing US borders to history’s latest ‘other’ – Muslims. Meanwhile, the UK is now embarking on a ‘hard Brexit’, putting as much political
To be patriotic is seen, in the era of Trump and Brexit, as a negative position for the left. The connotation is one of right-wing nationalism, of fear and suspicion of “foreigners” and an historically-illiterate reading of a nation’s past. Whilst this description may.
A socialist on the sidelines is an ineffectual and useless person. They can attend protests outside Parliament and shout all they want but the decisions happen within it, not without it. Pressure matters, but only so far as how much the government fears the reaction.