New left-wing EU critical electoral alliance launched, No2EU

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March 18, 2009
New left-wing EU critical electoral alliance launched
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No2EU – Yes to Democracy will be contesting seats in the European elections on June 4, 2009 on a platform of opposition to the Lisbon Treaty, against the EU-led privatisation of our public services, for workers’ rights and in protest at the corrupt EU gravy train,alliance convenor Bob Crow announced today.

Speaking at the launch of No2EU –Yes to Democracy in the House of Commons, Bob Crow said that millions of working people felt abandoned by the main political parties and needed a voice to represent them.

“The renamed EU constitution, now called the Lisbon Treaty, would still enshrine right wing Thatcherite economic policies as constitutional goals at a time when this discredited neo-liberal agenda is failing apart.

“We were promised a referendum on this issue by this government in the 2005 election yet it has been taken away from us and the Treaty was rammed through parliament with Lib Dem and Tory help, said the transport union RMT general secretary.
Former MP Dave Nellist said that he was elected in 1983, along with former PM Tony Blair, on an EU-critical platform on the basis that the emerging EU was a cartel of big business interests.

“Today we can see the EU’s privatisation agenda only to well with the endless stream of EU diktats demanding the privatisation of our public services,” he said.
Indian Workers’ Association vice president Avtar Sadiq said that EU’s internal market rules demanding the ‘free movement’ of capital, goods, services and labour within the EU had created conditions for a race to the bottom in terms of wages and conditions inside the EU and a fortress Europe mentality.

“The EU is dividing people not uniting them and this is feeding the rise of racism and fascism across Europe,” he said.

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