Brexit and after ...

A divorce was consummated under bourgeois rules, away from popular needs.

The European Union (EU) was founded in 1993 with 28 members. In 2016 the United Kingdom (RU) held the referendum through which he decided to leave the bloc, in the process known as Brexit. Since then, Brussels and London went through a rollercoaster of negotiations, threats and crises. at the beginning of 2020 managed to set a transition period to reach an agreement, with the deadline 31 December of the same year. Finally, he 24 from December, signed the conditions of their future commercial relations. The agreement will enter into force provisionally from January 1, 2021, until its final approval in the European Parliament.

Chaos, understanding, misgivings and questions

The last stretch of the dizzying journey together was achaos, with uncertainties, internal pressures, Thousands of truckers trapped in the British port of Dover due to the closure of the French border and the spread of the new strain of coronavirus discovered in the UK.

The economic interests in dance are large, This is an annual flow of goods of 500 billion euros that transit between the island and the continent. Regarding fishing, the last point to reach an agreement, London agreed to allow the continental fleet to enter waters under its influence in exchange for the transfer of the 25% of the value of catches to British fisheries, with a transition of five and a half years to negotiate quotas. The EU would compensate the losses of European fishermen with a fund 5 billion euros.

The new regulations establish that the UK will definitively leave the common market and the customs union, but there will be a reciprocal and total opening of the markets.“British companies will have unlimited access to a market of 450 millions of people. And European companies will be able to continue trading with the United Kingdom under the same conditions as currently., which keeps open a market to which they allocate the 18% of their extra-EU exports.”There areother points that configure what in general terms everyone accepts as a“amicable divorce”.

Both sides were satisfied with the"balance" reached the edge of the abyss. President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, expressed with relief: “We can finally put Brexit behind us”. On the other hand, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Conservative party) he claimed“…we have regained control of our laws and our destiny, in a complete and unrestricted way.”Beyond coincidences, established mechanisms for mutual surveillance and retaliation in case of non-compliance. The EU is suspicious that Johnson keeps granting competitive advantages to national flag companies up his sleeve.. On the other hand, in a contested divorce like this, where distrust prevails, We will see what correlation there is between the signed papers and the economic reality, even more so in the points of agreement forced to those who arrived or were left along the way with fishing, Gibraltar, the financial market and Northern Ireland.

The EU has no fix

The imperialist bloc is trying to recover from the political crisis it has been going through for a long time, overestimating the results of their interventions. Herecovery fund will give air to the European economy, but it is not a sample of the“refoundation of the EU with a solidarity project” how they have presented it. The Brexit agreement is important, but it does not magically disappear the economic impacts of the disconnection with one of the founding partners of the bloc for decades, when I didn't have the contemporary composition. At this stage of capitalism, no measures are proposed that imply a stable recovery, solid, durable and real production, because speculation dominates, In the end the money will return to the financial circuit that causes cyclical crises and there will be more adjustments and cuts.

Shamefully, officials also boast about the start of distribution and application of the Pfizer vaccine. Nevertheless, There is no injection that can hide the high cost in lives caused by the impositions of"austerity", cuts in health, privatizations, uncoordinated responses, inadequate, unfair and authoritarian during the pandemic. The EU is an imperialist bloc at the service of the powerful and capitalism. Even if they put makeup on it, it can't be fixed.

British nightmare

Beyond legitimate popular aspirations, Brexit ended up being dominated by an elitist perception of the UK on the world stage, under the imaginary of a British imperial resurgence. The concrete thing is that: workers suffer job insecurity, prices go up, salaries are stagnant - in the public sector since 2008- and the general strike is illegal. The town is getting worse: two million people cannot feed themselves, They depend on the good will of the people who donate food and the 33% of working class and immigrant children go to bed uneaten or insufficiently fed. The anger is increasing, such as the need for unions to lead the fight.

With Covid-19 and the incidence of infections with the new strains, the social inequalities rooted in the British state have become more clearly manifested: A poor person or immigrant is four times more likely to be infected and die. The government has used the pandemic to distribute contracts to its friends, while the bourgeoisie has taken advantage of it to continue enriching itself.

The aspirations of the powerful fuel nationalism, racism, misogyny and the attack on immigrants. The project headed by Boris Johnson has similarities with that of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, while, since Jeremy Corbyn's defeat, The Labor Party is not an opposition but a firm defender of the system. Boris Johnson's bravado is not something to recover“popular sovereignty” as he tries to make you believe, but to guarantee the profits of the British bourgeoisie, their economic and political interests.

The Brexit experience leaves a conclusion: so that it arrives to a good port, The break with the imperialist bloc of the EU must be led by the working class and the popular sectors, with a fighting agenda to satisfy their social needs, democratic and political; and not the interests of the rich and powerful.

We must take a new path

Officials are finishing outlining the“post Brexit” and the"New normal", But it's clear where they're headed.. Both in the European Union and the United Kingdom, Governments will strive to ensure that workers and people pay the consequences of the health crisis., economic and social. Aid from Brussels will reach member countries, generating more debt, sustaining or deepening reactionary labor reforms, attacking pensions and public services, to favor IBEX35 companies. Given the panorama presented by the continuity of the capitalist crisis, You cannot place expectations on the actions of the bourgeoisie.

We must trust in the struggle of the working class and the people who rebel around the world. In France, the mobilizations of the"Yellow jackets", general strikes and clashes against the government and the regime, They project the image of a continent that accumulates contradictions, social inequality and in which fight responses grow.

a Europe, the differences between social democratic parties, right and far right, they liquefy when it comes to supporting capitalism, What is an exploitation system?, oppression, destroyer of man and nature. It is necessary to clearly differentiate oneself from the reformists who cultivate the"Lesser evil", of the"Europeanist" and of the"Eurosceptics"; to stand up a third option, left, of class independence, consistent with the mobilization and construction of revolutionary organizations, with the strategy that the workers govern in thesocialism with workers democracy. Definitely, Socialism is the only system that can eliminate the exploitation of man by man, oppression, the destruction of nature and humanity itself.