Workers' Liberty

Réponse à Martin Thomas (et ça et là à Yves Coleman) : voir la réalité en face !

By Colin Foster

On the evidence of the EU summit of 15-18 June, France’s “no” is leading not to the “social Europe” which many “no” voters wanted, but to a hobbled Europe.

By Bjarke Friborg, who is EU campaign secretary for the Red-Green Alliance and a member of SAP, the trend in the RGA supporting the Fourth International.

Summary notes on Europe for the international meeting of June 2005/ notes sommaires sur l'Europe, pour la réunion internationale du 18 juin 2005. (In English and French).

A survey of the attitudes to the EU and the draft European constitution of the two main link-ups of the European left, the Party of the European Left (Communist and ex-Communist parties) and the European Anti-Capitalist Left (which includes some revolutionary groups).

"A little informative article written by a comrade who recounts what the Parti des travailleurs [PT, Workers' Party, one of the three sizeable Trotskyist groups in France] said about Europe and the referendum", sent to us by Yves Coleman. In French.

Written the day after the referendum, this text will be expanded and modified to address readers feedback. Text below in both English and French. By Yves Coleman (Ni patrie ni frontières).

By Vicki Morris

The French electorate certainly gave president Jacques Chirac a bloody nose on 29 May when they rejected by 55% to 45% the proposed European constitution.

No Campaign will not lead to a better Europe

In reply to the message of greetings to the AWL conference of May 2005 from the French Marxist group Liaisons arguing that the "No" campaign will stimulate the class struggle, Martin Thomas replies:

Translation and commentary by VM of article appearing at http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3232,36-653734@51-641597,0.html

In this message of greetings to the AWL conference of May 2005, the French Marxist group Liaisons urge us to favour a "no" vote in any referendum on the draft European Union constitution, rather than the position of refusing to take sides in such a referendum and instead saying that there should be a democratic Constituent Assembly for the EU. Click here for AWL reply.

A "European No" campaign has been launched to get a "no" vote to the Euro-constitution if France's referendum goes "yes" and there is a referendum in Britain.

Vicki Morris surveys the campaigns of the French far-left against the proposed EU constitution.

By Cathy Nugent
On Friday 18 June Tony Blair signed up to the new EU constitution on behalf of the UK government. Short of great political upheavals this constitution will settle the relationships between the capitalist powers in an expanded European Union for a long time to come - it codifies and pushes forward a very great degree of integration.

"Let us for a moment grant that German militarism succeeds in carrying out the half-union of Europe... what then would be the central slogan of the European proletariat? Would it be the dissolution of the forced European coalition and the return of all people under the roof of isolated national states?...