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The rest and the West: thoughts on Brexit and migration. Part One

Why the decisive political space for the Left is not Europe, but an inclusive democratic debate that alone can challenge the monocultural National Us. ( Part Two is here.)

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Life jacket hung on Christopher Columbus monument in Barcelona as Oscar Camps, founder of Spanish ngo specialising in search and rescue at sea and Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, attend press conference, July 4, 2018. Paco Freire/Press Association. All rights reserved.

Invited to speak on migration and Brexit by Agora Europe, there is one idea worth exploring in more detail, that I have been mulling over since I interviewed Carlos Delclos a social movement expert and activist based in Barcelona, in 2016.