Misplaced Loyalty

The ideas of nationalism are repugnant to socialists. Which country you are born in is an accident, in fact your birth itself was probably an accident. Despite this many workers sing national anthems, wave flags and identify themselves with "their country". Britain like every other country is owned by a tiny handful of the population and recent figures have shown the British working class are becoming even poorer. 'British workers have suffered one of the biggest falls in real wages among European countries over the past three years, with only crisis-hit Greece, Portugal and the Netherlands doing worse. New figures collated by the House of Commons Library show a 5.5 per cent drop in wages after inflation since 2010.' (Independent, 11 August) RD