Co-founders of The Full Brexit are pleased to be part of a new grassroots campaign supporting Brexit and the subsequent transformation of British society. It is called "Leave - Fight - Transform: The LeFT Campaign", and launched today with a letter and accompanying article in The Morning Star. (The Remain and Reform astroturf campaign, "Another Europe is Possible", launched in The Guardian, of course.) Below is LeFT's founding statement and how you can get involved, by signin

A response to criticisms of our recent London event from some on the left, and an invitation to further debate The Full Brexit co-organised the Transforming Britain After Brexit tour because we wanted to open up a space for discussion, within and beyond the Left, over Brexit and the nature of the European Union. In March we held events in Coventry, Manchester, Liverpool, and London, with an event in Durham to come next month and hopefully more dates in cities across the UK af

Last night's launch of Costas Lapavitsas's new book, The Left Case Against the EU, was a phenomenal success. The room was packed, with many people sitting on the floor, and dozens more viewing the event via live stream in an overflow room. The publisher has been through three print runs and all copies have been sold out. There was a lively debate and the huge turnout suggests that there is enormous appetite for left critique of, and leadership against, the EU. If you missed t

Our proposal to drop the backstop in the Brexit negotiations over Ireland (see Proposal #6 Irish Border) has elicited some predictably intemperate and inaccurate responses. Leading the charge, John O’Brennan, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Maynooth University, took to Twitter to complain that our argument was ”bizarrely ill-informed” and demonstrated ”how British elites understand little or nothing about Ireland (and don't want to waste time trying to gain u