THEY'RE called the European" elections. They're supposed to be all about breaking down national hurriers and so an. In theory.
In practice it's a different Mory. as Ernest Mandel, Trotskyist candidate in cections in Belgium, found out last week when he was refused entry into France. He has been banned from the country since 1972 because of his political activities".
Proof once more that the FEC is just a bosses Market where working cliss politics aren't wanted, • Mandel will be among the speakers at the Rally Against the EEC organised by the IMG this Friday at Porchester Hall. the THERE was a big hoo-ha last Callaghan/Benn "split' over Labour's manifesto for the EEC elections. Callaghan doesn't like the manifesto's suggestion that Britain's membership of the Common Market might have to he reconsidered if certain changes aren't made. But it was all papered over in the end, because Benn and the Labour lefts don't actually propose to do anything about the EEC now. week about the In the 1975 referendumn they did at least come out for immediate withdrawal, even if the red-white-and-blue arguments they used simply harked back to the 'go it alone days of the Empire, reinforcing all the instinets which bind British workers to their own ruling class, Today even this break with the Labour leadership is too TARIO Marsist EEC:
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ALI. the Group candidate for the European Parliament" clections in West London, is virtually the only labour movement candidate demand ing immediate withdrawal from the The IMG says that the Common Market is simply an arrangement by the European capitalista to coordinate and reinforce their exploitation of the working class and Third World And we're not the only ones who say it's a hosses Market. Capituliet spokespersons also admit it In their less guarded moments. This is how a CBI pamphiet, Britain into Europe, argued for British estry in the carly "Muny large firms have.rewched the point at which further national restructuring is impossible because of the present scale of the enterprise in relation to the market... If Western Europe is to compete effectively in sufficient and European hasis is