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