>Workers' Party of Belgium >================== >International department > >Boulevard M. Lemonnier 171 > >1000 Brussels > >Tel.: +32-2-5040.139, +32-2-5040.111 > >Fax: +32-2-5040.141, +32-2-513.98.31 > >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Internet: http://www.wpb.be > > Brussels, November 26, 2000 > > Proposal of a common communist platform >against the European Summit in Nice (France) > >Dear Comrades, > >On the occasion of the European Summit in Nice (France) on 7th and 8th >December 2000, we propose to present a common communist platform, endorsed >by as many communist parties and organisations as possible. > >If your organisation supports the platform, please mention hereafter the >full name and address (including E-mail address) of your organisation, as >well as the name of a responsible with his/her function. > >------ > >Our organisation supports the platform 'No to the European State' > >Name: > > >Address: > > > Name of a responsible with his/her function > >------- >You will find the text we propose hereafter (also in attachment). > >With our fraternal communist greetings > >Jean Pestieau >International Relations Secretary >International department >---------------------------------- >No to the European State > >On the 7th and 8th of December, the heads of State of the countries of the >European Union will gather in Nice. Their agenda: the reform of European >institutions. In fact, it is about the creation of the foundations of a >European State. A good thing ? > >This State is a creation of the European bosses. The group that has the most >influence on the European deciders is the European Round Table of >Industrialists, an association of 48 managers of the big European >multinationals: Philips, Fiat, Renault, TotalFina Elf, Bayer, Siemens, >Unilever, Shell, BP Amoco, Suez-Lyonnaise, etc. Founded in 1983 with the >support of the European Commission, it was behind the setting up of the >single market, the Maastricht Treaty, the creation of the Euro, the >expansion to the East and the submission of these countries to Western >capitalism. Today these employers want a political entity at the European >level. > >This state is and will be anti-democratic. The Parliament has only very few >powers. All power is concentrated in the Commission, in the Council of >ministers and in the European Council. Each of them are under the influence >of employers' lobbies like the Round Table. Think tanks like the European >Policy Centre, where politicians and businessmen sit next to each other, >orientate the debates about Europe. All this happens without the workers >knowing and against them. > >For of course this state is also anti-social. The almost unanimous desire of >European leaders is to make of Europe a supercompetitive entity, whose >companies will be able to beat their American and Japanese rivals. To this >end, the workers must agree to make themselves available for employers >according to the conditions of the latter : extreme flexibility, decrease of >salaries and of social allowances, dismantling of social security systems, >night and week-end work, generalisation of temporary employment and >part-time work, etc. The Social Charter that is to be ratified in Nice is >another example of social regression: no right to employment, no right to >housing, no right to income. > >The European State is and will be a war machine. First against the workers. >Then against the East European countries incorporated by force into the net >of European multinationals. Finally against the US and Japan. Because the >interest of European bosses in such a state is to be able to counter the >political and military hegemony of Washington. At the end of the day, it is >to be able to replace the US as the world dominant power. It is an >imperialist project. > >We, communists, defend the following : > >the right to a decent job for every worker >maintaining workers' established rights >democratic rights for everybody >the right for each Third World country to develop in an independent way >support for the national liberation movement in the Third World >the struggle for peace and against the dangers of war caused by the desire >for power of the US, the European Union and Japan >the development of the socialist countries >For we think that, to destroy this European state, to stop the globalisation >of markets and capital, to suppress the wealth gap in the world, in order to >create an economy centered on the human being, we have to change society. > >Join us. > > Contact address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Workers'Party of Belgium) > > > > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >eGroups eLerts >It's Easy. It's Fun. 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