ABSTRACT
In times of crisis, one becomes particularly sensitive to the urgent need to incorporate a politics of social responsibility as one of the essential ingredients of education. Just as we are giving the finishing touches to this chapter we are sad to find demonstration of this point on hearing the news that Brexit has triumphed. Britain is leaving the European Union for the worst reasons: out of fear of the other and in a selfish “Britain first” race. Misguided by an ultra-conservative-controlled media, Britons believed they had to choose between their own profit and solidarity with those refugees who are knocking on their doors in despair, refugees who are asking us all for help after having to leave their homes behind because of wars generated by Western capitalism and its greed. The surprising choice of 51 percent of the British population has been devastating. As we write this, nobody knows yet the long-term consequences of this terrible choice, but the short-term consequences are, unfortunately, already with us. The abject murder of MP Jo Cox, noted for her committed defense of diversity and the integration of immigrants in the UK, cannot be dissociated from the pro-Brexit hate campaign and its climactic display of an infamous anti-migrant poster on the very day of her killing. 1
