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By Pete Watson, Nottingham Socialist Party The European Single Market is a major barrier to any incoming socialist or anti-austerity government. The capitalist establishment across Europe is wedded to privatisation and austerity. And it can rely on Single Market treaties and EU law to impede nationalisation and state investment while ramping up privatisation. The 2009 Lisbon Treaty is the legal ...

Editorial in The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party of England and Wales “The Labour Party’s announcement that it wants the UK to remain within all the EU’s structures in the years right after Brexit is the best news to come out of British politics in a long time.” So read the 28 August editorial of the Financial Times, one ...