L'europe Ouvriere Sans Patries
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-08-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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Above: French revolutionaries' poster for the last European Assembly elections: Long live Workers' Europe without fatherlands or frontiers'. Below: the capitalist alternative to European unity - devastation in the German city of Aachen, 1945.
IN ADWISERS ULS landes a fE Sialviador are signatories. to it to capitalist solutions. And that is not acceptable. The Treaty of Rome is hostile to the interests of French and German and Italian and Benelux and Irish and Danish working class movements. You cannot build socialism by üsing the institutions of international capitalism. That's all we're saying.
If you present the European argument that way, then there is a total break with the old Powellite view.
So I don't think that this idea that now we've lost we should drop withdrawal from the EEC is valid. I might put this point to those who say that: did they ever believe in it? If we had won the election, wouldn't they be now saying we couldn't do it?
The main proponents of droping the socialist approach to Europe, which includes a 'break with the Treaty of Rome, are those who have never supported it anyway. Maybe that's your view...
MT: Yes!
TB: Well, I think then, and you are