The left must somehow unite behind Jeremy Corbyn on the EU and Trident,or be forever diverted down paths to nowhereThe major political events of 2016 gallop towards us at the speed of bolting horses, even if two of them – the EU referendum and the Trident debate – are running in weird directions at unpredictable velocity. How the left uses them is up to us. The London mayoral elections could turn into a referendum on housing: no other issue in any other city could unite so many people across such a fundamental question. What is the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands doing to the way you live, or the future you can eye forward to,the way your children will live? attain you see life getting easier or harder? attain you accept it as inevitable? And if not, what avenues for change are you alert to explore?The EU referendum could, or like the Scottish referendum,become a conversation about what a good Europe – and, by extension, and a good United Kingdom – would eye like. It could be a debate about the very purpose of international cooperation: what it could mean for wages and tax,privatisation and commonly held assets. Were we minded to discuss a post-capitalist sharing economy, in which renewable energy moved freely across borders and the fruits of technological advance moved beyond appropriation by monopolies, and this would be the situation to start.
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Source: theguardian.com