Showing posts with label Labour Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labour Party. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2016

The Neoliberal Prison: Brexit Hysteria and the Liberal Mind

I'm fascinated by the parallels between the Democratic Party and the Labour Party -- both parties were moved right by the Clintons and by Tony Blair. The article below is about the internal battles in the Labour Party, the British version of our Democratic Party. Labour was captured by the left - Jeremy Corbyn - let's call him a more left version of Bernie.

I'm continuing to post articles today relating to neo-liberalism and tie it to the world-wide ed deform movement as one of the major battlefields and how our union with its ties to the Democratic Party has been on the neo-liberal train since it began its ride in the early 70s with the overthrow of Allende in Chile, an act in which our own union played a minor role. (The American Federation of Teachers and the CIA by George Schmidt
This counterpunch piece by Jonathan Cook gets down to the essence. 
The Brexit vote is a huge challenge to the left to face facts. We want to believe we are free but the truth is that we have long been in a prison called neoliberalism. The Conservative and Labour parties are tied umbilically to this neoliberal order. The EU is one key institution in a transnational neoliberal club. Our economy is structured to enforce neoliberalism whoever ostensibly runs the country.
Much of the Labour shadow cabinet has just resigned and the rest of the parliamentary party are trying to defy the overwhelming democratic will of their membership and oust Corbyn. His crime is not that he supported Brexit (he didn’t dare, given the inevitable reaction of his MPs) but that he is not a true believer in the current neoliberal order, which very much includes the EU.....http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/28/the-neoliberal-prison-brexit-hysteria-and-the-liberal-mind/
Pro-EU have jumped on the left for being on the same side as Trump and other right wing forces. I have been putting up a series of articles that delves deeper into why some people who support Trump are doing it for reasons other than race and anti-immigration but rather a reaction to the outcomes of neo-liberalism. Now I think Trump is full of bullshit and is a neo-liberal himself - whereas Bernie is not. I will be putting up interesting pieces today from the NY Times which nails some good points though you won't see the term neo-liberal used too often in the Times - though I did see Laissez--Faire Capitalism.

Here are my recent pieces on this topic:

Read Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/28/the-neoliberal-prison-brexit-hysteria-and-the-liberal-mind/
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