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QOOOE2 As Their Plants They Cultivate For National The Independence, Democracy Democrat and Jobs Paper of the Campaign against Euro-federalism ISSN 0967-3806 Number 140 March-April 2014 50p EU 3.5 million jobs lie uring the recent EU debates stitute of Economic and Social Research between arch euro fanatic (NIESR) estimated, using similar meth- D Nick Clegg and UKIP leader ods, that up to 3.2m UK jobs "are now Nigel Farage the Lib Dem leader associated directly with exports of dragged up the well-worn lie that 3.5 goods and services to other EU coun- million jobs in Britain depend on EU tries." It warned that: "there is no a pri- membership. ori reason to suppose that many of This claim is based on one study car- these, if any, would be lost perma- ried out over ten years ago which the nently if Britain were to leave the EU." researcher himself has since repudi- In fact, NIESR director Jonathan Portes, ated. who is certainly no Eurosceptic, de- scribed this research as "past [its] sell- EUBG to Afrrica page 2 report by Brian Denny by date." Yet it is still being pumped out by the The list of factories, car plants, engi- right wing campaign group British In- neering centres and jobs being stripped fluence, headed up by Tory spin doctor out of Britain's manufacturing base and Peter Wilding and one Peter Mandel- transferred abroad due to the logic of son, as well as by trade unions that the EU single market is never men- should know better such as Unite. tioned by supporters of EU "free move- To back up Clegg’s big lie Brussels ment" rules. mouthpiece The Independent newspaper From Peugeot's decision to close the recently recycled "new analysis" using Ryton plant in Coventry in 2006 and Ukraine situation page 6 the same statistics. move production to Slovakia and But statisticians at independent fact- Ford's decision to transfer production checking organisation Full Fact point from Southampton to a plant in Turkey out: "Figures from the early 2000s sug- last year, jobs in the neoliberal EU gest around three million jobs are move towards the lowest wage levels linked to trade with the European Un- and EU regional funds are actively ion, they don't say they are dependent used to encourage this process. on the UK being an EU member. No politician who supports Britain's “Using similar methods, a similar fig- EU membership can claim to support a ure today has shown closer to 4.5 mil- future of good-quality, well-paid, lion jobs, but this still doesn't show highly skilled jobs in Britain. In fact it is how many are dependent on UK mem- simply impossible due to membership bership." of the single European market and the The 2004 paper from the National In- EU. CAEF AGM resolution page 5 Four page insert—the run up to World War 1 Part II : Alliances and the arms race Collapse of the left in face of the economic crisis p 8-9 News EU sends Battle Group to Africa In his opening statement to the Munich Rompuy threatened, “but our countries Bob Crow Security Conference, a yearly meeting of are ready to use military force when European and US security chiefs, on 1 necessary.” February, the president of the European In his invitation to the EU Council Council, Herman van Rompuy, after meeting of 19–20 December, van Rom- expressing his full sympathy and sup- puy announced to the heads of state and port for the Ukrainian demonstrators, government: “Before our first working stated: “Some people think Europeans session, the NATO secretary-general are naïve, that we prefer carrots over will share some thoughts with us ahead sticks. Now, I am not saying that we of the thematic debate that we will have cannot sometimes play our hand more on defence policy. I should indeed like strongly. us to have a strategic discussion on one “I know the EU is sometimes looked at of the major current challenges in the as somewhat of a Florence Nightin- field of defence: what should we be do- Our Campaign against Euro- gale—but we do not ing, as Union and as EU federalism is profoundly just send nurses and Member States, to retain and shocked and deeply sad- nutritionists, we also develop the capabilities that dened at the loss of RMT General Secretary Bob Crow. send judges and police- are critical for our defence He was a man of principle men, soldiers and ma- and our security, and how with proletarian guts and rines. In fact we just can we encourage more co- worked unequivocally for, on decided to send in operation to reach this goal. and by the side of trade un- principle around 600 After the discussion, we will ionists and working people. troops to Bangui adopt the corresponding part His leadership of RMT in- (Central African Re- of the conclusions … cluded outright opposition to public). They will “Starting this year, the austerity policies and pri- vatisation which stem from work side by side with Europeans will be Brussels. He fully supported those of France …” launching new joint and encouraged the labour This would be the defence programmes, and trade union movement to first time since their for cutting-edge return to a policy for the with- creation in 2007 that a drones, satellite com- drawal of Britain from the EU. military unit of the EU munication, cyber Within this he supported our Battle Group would be defence and air-to-air Campaign to which RMT is affiliated. deployed under direct refuelling, emphasis- command of the Council of the EU, and ing that it was the start of a process. All Bob Crow would be amused it is an ominous development. “We these tools,” he said, “are at the service at all the fine words ex- clearly prefer diplomatic solutions,” van of Europe’s interests and security.” pressed by those who op- posed him and would cer- tainly say “the bastards Increasing cost of Britain’s EU membership waited until I died to give me A number of studies have been carried out as some CAP and aid payments which go any back-handed credit”. on the total cost to the UK of our EU mem- through separate budgets from the main bership, with conflicting results depending one. If all these items are included, the cur- We send condolences to on the assumptions made about some of the rent net cost to the UK is about £12bn per RMT members and Bob’s family. The best way to com- elements which are more difficult to quan- annum. Furthermore, it is on a rising trend memorate the life of Bob tify. Our budgetary membership cost, how- partly because of phasing down of the re- Crow is to work harder to ever, is clear cut and beyond dispute, al- bate we have had and partly because of carry out his principles and though the true figures are surprisingly rising EU expenditure. The Office for objectives. difficult to find in official documents. This Budget Responsibility estimates that these is partly because the main focus tends to be costs are going to rise by a further £1Obn John Boyd on the gross and net amount we pay into over the period between 2013 and 2018. Is Secretary the main EU budget rather than the total Labour going to allow these trends to con- For and on behalf of the costs, including all off budget items such as tinue or to press for changes? Campaign against Euro- the heavy fines we have had to pay from federalism time to time, capital as well as revenue cost (Report by Labour Euro-Safeguards Cam- on projects such as Galileo, and item such paign Bulletin March 2014) Page 2 The Democrat Number 140 Editorial March-April 2014 Don’t let the far-right lead everal reports indicate the far right, including fascists and S neo-fascists are gaining ground in several EU member states. The far right perceived stand is on the question of EU member- ship. In Britain one anti-EU Tory MEP has turned himself into an apologist for fascists by accusing the left of misunderstanding the origins of fascism. He even says fascism and Nazism are and were based on so- cialism. The National Socialists (Nazis) were neither national nor socialist. Ini- tially in the 1930’s it was believed the Nazis were going to solve the unemployment problems within Germany. History tells us that they around the question of immigration. permanent and are to be added to were for the expansion of imperialist with further cuts in everything pub- Germany. They had the support of As this paper has explained many lic. Cameron’s talk of incomes rising leading capitalists including Krupps times the European Union and its faster than inflation by one tenth of and Ford who maintained and pro- institutions are the antithesis of de- one percent indicates a way out of moted Hitler and his fascist party. mocracy, national independence austerity should fool nobody. The larger transnational corpora- and right to self-determination. This tions today are the biggest support- includes the right to have a socialist Britain has been all but de- ers and promoters of the European economy or any other economic sys- industrialised and currently suffers Union. tem. In other words the EU is top- mass unemployment, especially hatted fascism without funny sa- amongst young people. The simple In Britain it was significant that lutes and jackboots. Capitalism is set ability to create wealth and trade Oswald Moseley's British Union of in reinforced concrete in the Euro- across the world is fast disappear- Fascists was the first political party pean Constitution.
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