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Out! And now for real independence
Cypriot workers fight aftermath of EU-ordained closure
8 February 2015
Unions in Cyprus are still fighting the aftermath of the shutdown of the national air carrier, Cyprus Airways. An EU ruling that financial help given by the Cyprus government was illegal state aid effectively shut it down in January, with the loss of 560 jobs
Troika abandoned as EU seeks a way out
3 February 2015
In a graphic illustration of the weakness of the European Union after the Greek election, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has signalled his willingness to end the rule of the “troika”.
G20: the drive to war
The G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, in November made good TV: Russian President Putin as the naughty boy isolated by the other 19 countries, which took it in turns to call him names, forcing him to leave early. But it wasn't like that at all.
The holy freedoms of capitalism
The EU is built on the “free movements” of capital, labour, goods and services, that is, on uncontrolled movements of all four. Capital needs these “freedoms” in order to maximise its profits, and for no other reason.
TTIP: a dagger aimed at Britain’s sovereignty
At last, a sea change is taking place in the thinking of the unions on TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership treaty being negotiated between the European Union and the US.
The mathematics of the madhouse
27 November 2014
Under fire for promoting corporate tax evasion, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has come up with a new wheeze: magicking a €315 billion investment programme out of thin air.
SNP seeks EU referendum veto
30 October 2014
Having failed to deliver Scotland bound and gagged into the hands of the European Union through the “independence” referendum, the Scottish National Party is now trying to ensure that the whole of Britain will be locked forever in to the Brussels embrace.
EU ban threatens closure of North Devon fishing
24 October 2014
A ban on ray fishing in Britain by the EU Marine Management Organisation threatens the end of fishing in North Devon.
More doublespeak over TTIP
17 October 2014
On 9 October the European Union released the text of its “negotiating mandate” for the TTIP – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership treaty that it is negotiating with the European Union. Perhaps inadvertently, it includes one telling admission.
Russia’s not our enemy
Is the US trying to push the EU into war with Russia? It’s starting to look like it…
What democracy really means
Now that the referendum is over, the focus of the media has leapfrogged the coming months and focused on the general election. Nothing else is held to be relevant.
TTIP and the unions
Many unions are opposing the proposed transatlantic trade and investment treaty – while supporting the EU and endorsing its exclusive right to negotiate TTIP on our behalf.
Eurobriefs: The latest from Brussels
Germany economy shrinking…From lobbyist to Commissioner…Migration up…EU and Scotland…Barroso on the referendum
Trade in Services
On top of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the USA and the EU also want agreements to liberalise trade and investment in all services.
Eurobriefs: The latest from Brussels
Britain’s largest union backs referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union…Euro-election turnout lower than first thought…Government report into free movement of labour
Government renews rail franchise chaos
The franchise to run the heavily used Thameslink service for seven years has gone to a company partly owned by French state railway operator SNCF...
Eurobrief: TTIP under scrutiny
The EU-US free trade agreement, known as TTIP, is coming under increasing pressure as more and more people start to realise what it entails. Top of the list of concerns is the provision for Investor State Dispute Settlement, or ISDS.
EU referendum now!
The Parliamentary parties have often promised a referendum but have always broken their promises, because they represent capitalism and capitalists are afraid to hear the views of the working class.
Six calls to action
The Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist held its 16th Congress in late 2012, a coming together of the Party to consider the state of Britain and what needs to happen in the future. Here we set out briefly six Calls to Action for the British working class.
Britain as a nation state
Is the British nation state still needed? Debate on this has at last moved into the glare of media concern. Yet this very development has generated a phoney war to derail growing opposition to the EU.
Democracy and the EU
We find ourselves with our laws made by a foreign body, daily asserting extra powers for itself, trying to force us into a single economy with a single currency and soon to establish a single armed force.
Debt, trade imbalance, fake economic miracle. Yes, it’s happened before. In Germany
Germany has been directly and indirectly responsible for the mess the eurozone now finds itself in. And this is an issue on which the country has some form, around 80 years ago...
State and revolution
In 1917, after three years of world war, Lenin identified the nature and function of the state. He declared that a partnership exists between the state and the dominant ruling class with the former charged with serving the interests of the latter.
Fighting fascism
It is a fact that the only force to defeat fascism is the organised working class. Sometimes in a particular country, as in Britain prior to the Second World War when Mosley was broken, orr internationally – as in the Second World War, when the forces of progress epitomised in the Red Army cleared Europe.
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