devoted to it, the issue of European union and the Maastricht summit still leave most British workers cold.
Many feel, correctly, that they are being offered no real choice at all. Neil Kinnock's right wing Labour team is vying with John Major's faction of Tories and Paddy Ashdown's Liberal Democrats in their effort to appear the most enthusiastic supporters of European 'unity.
This leaves the opposition under the domination of little Englander Thatcherite Tories, whose main objection to a more integrated EC is that it concedes too much in the way of welfare benefits and rights to the working class.
Socialists object to the Maastricht proposals from a very different point of view. We can see the reactionary character of the 'united Europe' being pieced together by right wing governments in smoke-filled rooms, the Burope of Kohl and Major: unemployed, and 44 million people have an income less than half the average of their country • An IMPERIALIST Europe, forging 'unity' between capitalists in preparation for trade war against the USA and Japan, while feeding off the misery, cheap labour and raw materials of the Third World;
•ARACIST Europe, tightening a web of immigration laws to increase discrimination against blacks and ethnic minorities, as we can see from Kenneth Baker's reactionary Asylum Bill (See Page 15).
Against those who seek unity with Europe's bankers under the fig-leaf of the powerless Social Charter, socialists call for a fighting unity of the European working class against capitalists and their governments.
Against the warlike unity of bosses in the looming trade war, we call for a united socialist states of Europe. ANALYSIS, see centre pages.