With a rising Jeremy Corbyn and a declining Angela Merkel, Brexit has been upgraded to play a much more critical role
Brexit could play a much more critical role in the future course of
Europe, apart from being treated just as a result of national pride -
wounded Britons alarmed by the sirens of patriotism.
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During WWII,
UK and Germany were destined to fight each other in a cruel, bloody
battlefield. The end of the war found the European nations to
struggle to recover and secure conditions that would lead towards the
unification of Europe. While behind this highly optimistic project
were lying (as always) the forces of the big capital, the
unimaginable cruelty of WWII was used to secure the consent of the
European societies. Unification, or even federalization of Europe was
presented as the solution that would save the European nations from
the danger of another big war in the future.
During the
post-WWII era and until the early 70s, national economies were
heavily regulated by the state. The European social state was an
example for many other countries around the globe. With the rise of
neoliberalism, a wave of deregulations in various fields took place.
Labour market was going to be deregulated and financial market too.
Ronald Reagan in the US and Margaret Thatcher in UK became the
pioneers of the implementation of neoliberal doctrine. We can easily
say that the Anglo-American axis became the motherland of
neoliberalism.
Thatcher
exhibited an unprecedented zeal to eliminate the social state, crush
trade unions, privatize every single stone inside the UK territory.
The plague of neoliberalism affected heavily the British society
before spreading to the rest of Europe. For
four decades, the neoliberal regime has taken over governments,
institutions, minds.
The German
big capital became hungry seeing the elites benefiting in the US and
UK by the neoliberal domination. With the fall of Berlin Wall and the
collapse of Soviet Union, every last barrier was removed. The
oligarchs of West Germany fell like hungry hyenas to grab whatever
they could, almost free, from the state-owned enterprises of East
Germany. As a result, 2.5 million employees lost their jobs and
Treuhand
operation left 260 to 270 billion DM in debt behind. A similar
operation
is now in process against debt-enslaved Greece. The
neoliberal globalists in Europe did whatever they could to maintain
power from the early 90s and after.
The
German governments used some advantages (e.g. exports power) to
maintain a level of prosperity for the working class. On the other
hand, the UK citizens, especially after the global meltdown of
2007-08 have seen the serious consequences of the bubble economy in
their lives. In addition, the Thatcherian, ugly experience of the
past, contributed on what appears to be an epic turn of the British
society. According to a recent
report,
UK voters now favour socialism over capitalism.
There is no doubt that Brexit
prevailed mainly due to the fear that Germany will dominate
completely in Europe through an economic superiority. Besides, the
rise of nationalism is not only a British characteristic in our days.
Yet, the report above is one of many signs that the British society
is changing ideological direction quite fast. And this means that
Brexit could play a much more critical role in the future course of
Europe, apart from being treated just as a result of national pride -
wounded Britons alarmed by the sirens of patriotism.
Currently,
the German capital is pressing its political puppets to accelerate
actions towards the desirable conditions for the coming
neo-Feudalism. Angela
Merkel is now the main carrier of this mission in Europe. Although
she lost significant power in the latest elections, she has the
opportunity to build the necessary coalitions in order to finish the
job in her last term in power.
Yet, Jeremy Corbyn could seize the
opportunity of Brexit to drive the UK to the opposite direction.
While the Brussels-Berlin axis will seek to implement all the
conditions of the Greek experiment inside the EU, the Labour party
under Corbyn could become an example against this dark future. While
the Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras, suffered a heavy defeat as went
unprepared in the battle with the ruthless neoliberal priesthood,
Corbyn should go to the battle with the neoliberal regime after a
good preparation and a well-constructed plan.
This means that the Labour Party
should build strong alliances inside the UK, especially with workers'
unions and small-medium businesses. The Party should start a
well-organized campaign across the country to make all the workers
unite against the neoliberal agenda of the Tories. Corbyn should
speak to the small-medium business owners to make them realize that
the neoliberal model is their enemy as it only benefits the big
multinational monsters against the small-medium sector.
However, one of the first and most
important moves that Corbyn should do after his election is to
nationalize central bank. The global financial mafia inside and
outside the UK will find very difficult to fight any government that
fully controls the central bank, and therefore, the money supply and
circulation. A public investment bank that would lead public
investments, as Corbyn mentioned, is very important, but not enough.
Moreover, in today's complex,
multipolar world, the UK is far from possessing the adequate specific
weight to confront the ruthless forces of neoliberalism alone. Corbyn
should build strong alliances outside the UK too, wherever he can. In
any case, if the neoliberal regime lose one of its motherlands, the
countdown for its final demolition will definitely begin.
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