The RMT union, the Stalinist Communist Party of Britain and the ‘Trotskyist’ Socialist Party in England and Wales have gone to great lengths to try and convince us that the No2EU campaign is not rightwing, not anti-immigrant and certainly not nationalist! But Facebook exposes these claims for what they are.

Leading Cardiff SPEW member Andrew Ballard has been doing his best to promote No2EU on FB - nothing wrong with that. The problem is, he is promoting it on far-right, nationalist, racist and BNP-controlled pages. Pages such as ‘British jobs for British people’, ‘Get foreign labour out of Britain’ and ‘UK jobs for UK workers’. The names of these groups make clear their politics.

On these pages, apart from posting links, he posted this message: “British jobs for British workers and Italian jobs for Italian workers. The only reason the EU has such a large migrant workforce is to drive down workers’ wages and increase profits for the super-rich. Vote No2EU on June 4.” So much for a workers’ Europe, then. Such slogans would find a loving home in the BNP and nationalist parties across Europe. Did he forget about internationalism?

So many of us on the revolutionary left have been repulsed by this campaign, and we have been called sectarians and all of the other usual crap internationalists get called. It is doubtful that Ballard is the only one, and as a leading cadre he is certainly not a loose cannon.

Some of us always knew that No2EU is nothing more than little England politics dressed up in trade union clothes. But we never expected SPEW members to campaign on nationalist, far-right and BNP-controlled sites.

SPEW members need to wake up. Good socialists are being dragged into the nationalist mire.