„Lexit” – pozalaburzystowska, antyunijna lewica brytyjska w referendum 2016 roku

• Authors: Ilkowski Filip

Title variants

EN

Lexit: a non-Labour, anti-EU British left in the 2016 referendum

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

W artykule poddane analizie zostają działania i motywacje ideowe polityków i formacji politycznych związanych z tą częścią lewicy brytyjskiej, istniejącej poza Partią Pracy, która w referendum 2016 r. wzywała do głosowania za wystąpieniem Zjednoczonego Królestwa Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii Północnej z Unii Europejskiej. Wskazane zostają zasadnicze filary odniesień ideowych tych środowisk, ich elementy wspólne i różnicujące. W tekście postawiona zostaje teza, że podobnie, jak w przypadku laburzystów, także wśród lewicy poza Partią Pracy można wskazać na dwa bieguny ideowo-polityczne determinujące opowiedzenie się za opuszczeniem UE przez UK: socjalistycznego uniwersalizmu i narodowotożsamościowego partykularyzmu. Przy czym ich kluczowym wyznacznikiem były poglądy w kwestii kontroli imigracji, mające wpływ także na stosunek do współpracy ze środowiskami antyunijnej prawicy.

EN

The article presents the analysis of activities and ideological motivations of politicians and political formations connected to those parts of non-Labour British left, that appealed during the 2016 referendum to vote for leaving the European Union by the United Kingdom. It points to key ideological pillars of this heterogenic political milieu with its common and divergent elements. The thesis is put forward in the text that, as in the case of Labour politicians, also among the left-wing outside the Labour Party, we can point to two ideological and political poles that decide to opt for leaving the EU by the UK: socialist universalism and national-identity particularism. Their key determinant was the views on immigration control, also affecting their attitude to cooperation with the anti-EU right-wing political milieu.

Keywords

PL

referendum; Unia Europejska; Zjednoczone Królestwo; Wielka Brytania; lexit; Partia Pracy; pozalaburzystowska lewica

EN

referendum; European Union; United Kingdom; Great Britain; lexit; the Labour Party; non-Labour British left

• Publisher: Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 2(56)
• Pages: 101-118

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Ilkowski Filip

• University of Warsaw

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