Printed by Tridant Press, Edenbridge. Published by Idolrare Ltd, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. Copyright © 1994 European 'Common Market' which makes a low turnout almost inevitable in the Euro Elections on June 9: it is also the vacuous and almost indistinguishable platitudes served up by all three main political parties.
Since none of them has anything useful or concrete to say about the real problems facing the British workers' movement, there is an understandable reluctance to get too involved in giving careerist Labour Euro-candidates a leg-up onto the lucrative Brussels gravy-train.
The satisfaction of seeing Major's squalid gang take another electoral kicking will be enough to persuade a minority to go out to vote: but few will do so with any enthusiasm.
Since Labour under Kinnock caved in to swing lamely behind the European bourgeois bandwagon, British voters have been offered no option: each party to one degree or another backs the reactionary Maastricht Treaty and advocates participation in the expanding apparatus of the bosses' European Ironically it is Major's team which now stands most aloof from the process, seeking to paper over the deep-going divisions over Europe in their own ranks by posing as defenders of 'democracy' - in the form of the right of British capitalists to veto or opt out of any measure that might restore any of the rights the Tories have stripped from the British working class.
Back door
Labour opportunistically hints at the possibility of winning rights not through struggle in Britain but through the back door - the bureaucracy of the European Parliament.
This ignores the reality both of Maastricht, with its limits on public sector social spending, and of the emerging Fortress Europe, underpinned by the reactionary Campsfield detention centre: protestors fight Fortress Europe benefit or Italian pensions. European Union: "The EU is above all a GEES Schengen agreements, designed to clamp down on immigration.
The mass racist detentions of asylum seekers at Campsfield and other British detention centres are a much better guide to life under Maastricht than pipe-dreams of the Tories being forced by Brussels to concede Dutch-style unemployment Socialist Outlook has consistently argued against Maastricht and the apparatus of the bosses' Europe, for a completely different approach.
We agree with sections of the Trotskyist Fourth International across Europe, who have denounced the super-market, a super-bank and a super-power! The EU means both the It is waging a war on its own workers and youth, an economic war against its Japanese and American competitors, and an all-out war against the Third World."
Like our Fi co-thinkers we call for • a Europe-wide programme to abolish unemployment through a shorter working week and mass programmes of useful public works.
• opposition to all forms of racism and ethnic purification, and recognition of the right to national • emergency action to stop the human disaster affecting the countries of the Third World: immediate cancellation of the debts of countries of the South and East.
• elimination of nuclear weapons and units from Europe, together with US military bases. The Europe we want can only be built through the struggles of millions of working class people, forging strong international links and practical solidarity.
In calling for a Labour vote on June 9, we do so to maximise the blow against the Major government, and as part of our fight to strengthen the Brilish working class movement and its ability to take action in its own defence and in defence of others.
No to the bosses' Europe: yes to a Europe of workers' solidarity!