that opposition, stretch. ing from concerns ADOUDOCTO part of the far to opposition from the left to the privatisation deregulation Clauses buried in the Treaty.
The centre ground was Sinn Fein, the Greens and neutrality groups which supand membership of such a force. This disparate opposition were abic to draw our tach support and ensure a no vote on a very low overall turnout of only 34.79%.
No campaign Two other factors are worthy of mention. The first was error on the part of the gorThey fool ernment forces ishly decided not to mount a yes campaign.
The rationale was that all Tor Tact of the forces leading Irish society supported the YES call, and simple statements of support without into detail would allow the measure to without any real debate.
One of the reasons this did. n't work is because a whole series scandals have led to widespread pub lic distrust of politicians.
The dramatic impact of the No voic, when it canic, was amplified by the fact that European capital had managed to avoid a vote in every other country.
the Irish vote brought the whole process to The outline of government strategy is already visible. Their first step will be to actacn some sections or tac opposition - either the right, with the promise of a reterendum on abortion, or the centre with some meaningtrality which will be negated by the Treaty itself. e cier cemento ernment strategy will simply The fact that business, goythe trade 0000S OH union leadership all support YES should ensure victory From this viewpoint the strategy of the left should also be clear. It is to assert a working class Amount a determined opposition to a trade union leadership that norts the Nice treaty's calls for privatisation and deregulation, and is now ready to a to overthrow a democratic One urgent task is to bring figures from the European demonstrate in practice that an alternative does exist, and workers' movement. The May Issue of Socialist main component of the Socialist Alliances, the SWP. If tain a report of the debate on anything, I would argue that the April 22 between left support. SWP overstate the case. ers and opponents of the Thomett does not refute this argument, merely goes on to makes it all the more of a of course is that "there are now two defining political He ponto w Thornett writes, it is also possi- One is the anti-globalsation ble to caricature by omission. A movement, the other the "emergence" of the Socialist unions, including the attitude of the Socialist Allance to the devoted to the question of the Socialist Alliance it is hard to nor to mention it in his report. Of course, this all adds to his Thomett attacks me for say. ing that the Labour govern. beyond the pale because we refuse to accept this. this is a standard argument among those insisting that Thornett claimed in the debate that the Socialist Allance provides a better mechanism for undermining the domination of the Labour Party over working class polities in Britain, but did not go on ry summary) that the Socialst ing pointed in precisely the "we have a campaign on issue Labour Party, pointeo out triat we have built up the Alliance, but also the Green party, a Conscituency Labour Boateng's constituencywhere Outlook supporters Socialism on the internet International Socialist Group: www.3bh.org.uklISG WORKER have been involved in building up such a campaign. This cannot be done if you start from a "join the SA campaign " stand. point. This approach to camout of Stalinism's third period, with its "united front from Debate involves taking your opponent's arguments seriOutlook fails this test abysmally those on the left who don't agree with the Socialist Alliance as warang for something to If Thorett doesn't know better, other Wudook supporters Alliance's rather pathetic permaybe it is time for them to do Pete Firmin, Brent
OUTLOOK the monthly marxist review. right tol protest. Riot police confront antcapitalists in Prague. Repression has increased as capitalists scour the world for a saje place to debate ways of increasing their profits Name Phone No 46. June 2001. 50p Swedish police fired live bullets at anti-capitalise protestors outside the EU summit in votnenourg. vin demonstrator was so badly injured that CNN subsequently reported he had died, though this was later withdrawn. While it was a relief to hear later from a surgeon involved that he may pull through, this does not min.
imise the crimes of the police.
Eye witness reports make clear that the police had been provoking demonstrators right from the begin.
ning - surrounding the Convergence Centre so that people had to come out through a cordon, arresting large numbers of people, and throwing Don't miss an issue: SUBSCRIBE now! them out of the city itself This is part of a pattern of increased repression faced by activists organis. ing against globalisation across the world (see p13) Politicians including Tony Blair have not condemned police brutality and attempted murder in Gothenburg but turned on those who resist the inities out syste Now the Italian authorities seem determined to use this as an excuse to tighten the ring of steel around Genoa and prevent us expressing our must oppose this in the strongest terms possible.