After Brexit, European Left Calls for 'Massive Political Opposition'

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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/24/after-brexit-european-left-calls-massive-political-opposition


The Leave campaign won "because the EU establishment have made it impossible, through their anti-democratic reign (not to mention the asphyxiation of weaker countries like Greece), for the people of Britain to imagine a democratic EU," DiEM25 said, adding that the vote should motivate leftists across Europe to unite for a populist movement.

The group's statement continued:

We can proudly look the powers-that-be in Brussels, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris etc. in the eye and tell them: “We tried to save the EU from you. But you have poisoned the EU so badly by silencing the voices of democrats that, though we tried, we could not convince to people of Britain to stay.”

We, at DiEM25, are in no mood for being downcast now that Leave won, against our better efforts. As of today, a new exciting challenge begins for our pan-European democratic movement.

[....] As of today, DiEM25 will seize upon the OUT vote to promote its radical agenda of confronting the EU establishment more powerfully than before.

The EU’s disintegration is now running at full speed. The DiEM25 campaign of building bridges across Europe, bringing democrats together across borders and political parties, is what Europe needs more than ever to avoid a slide into a xenophobic, deflationary, 1930s-like abyss. In this endeavour, British progressives will be at the heart of DiEM25’s campaigns.

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1. Only other "Leftish" perspective I found was Dean Baker & Laura Flanders on Chris Hayes 6/24

This spells it out in much more detail, many thanks.