The national mythology of Brexit Britain

Introduction: The True Meaning of Brexit Six years ago, I voted Leave in the EU referendum, and was at that time a vocal critic of the Remain camp. Disillusioned with the left as misrepresented by people like Owen Jones and Jess Phillips, I could already feel myself drifting to the right back then, and yet…

The socialist case for Welsh independence

Introduction: The Impasse of British Wales I have written frequently about the dire state of my country on this blog. Our economy has suffered greatly as a result of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the complications of the government’s Brexit deal. We are soon to be hit with a cost of living crisis that the…

Stop using the term “national-populism” – It’s just a polite word for neo-fascism

In the bourgeois democracies of the West and elsewhere in the world, a rot is taking hold. It has been growing and festering in the aftermath of the global financial crash of 2008, with its growth accelerating over the past five years. It is the politics of a reactionary right that has abandoned all pretence…