Towards a new European internationalist project without false dilemmas: against/within/outside the European Union
Towards a new European internationalist project without false dilemmas: against/within/outside the European Union

Author(s): Catherine Samary
Subject(s): Politics, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Comparative politics, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Greek crisis; Brexit; Sovereign; Internationalist; Intertwined territorial levels
Summary/Abstract: The Greek trauma has revealed the inability of the European Left to unite on a common vision and goal concerning the European Union (EU). The referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) – one of the EU’s financial centres – and subsequent ‘Brexit’ has been another bitter illustration of this crisis of orientation. This chapter will address the false binary choice, in which the Left has been trapped: to ‘remain’ within the EU and accept its rules or to ‘leave’ in the name of ‘national sovereignty’ expressed by dominant ultra-neoliberal and/or racist currents. Looking through the lens of subaltern populations/classes of the population – be they native or migrant, within the centre or within the different (internal and external) semi-peripheries of the EU – this chapter suggests how a new internationalist European Left should oppose all discriminations, relationships of domination, and xenophobic policies at all intertwined territorial levels and fight for social and environmental justice across them. It further offers proposals as to how such a new internationalist European Left should delegitimize non-democratic institutions and treaties that are destructive for social rights and the environment, and begin to build alternative self-organized counter powers, to resist market competition and to build new popular and freely shared sovereign relations, which would protect and extend collective goals against the privileges of the few

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