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UP SIDE DOWN

Socialist Resistance no8 | page 11

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their opposition to the bosses' Europe. Below ALAN THORNETT explains what the European constitution means for us. I so why the LU need forma sent he media offers various reasons as

stitution, rather than what it has at present - rules and statutes contained in a series of treaties, accumulated since the European Economic Community was 70,000 march through Thessalonika against a bosses' Europe points and everything to do with the fact that he could not win a referendum at the present time.

In fact economic conditions must have substantially improved with the fall of the value of the pound against the Euro, since the previously over-valued pound was clearly an obstacle to immediate membership.

This problem of the referendum has been compounded by Blair's role in the war and the divisions it has generated between some of the major European powers and the USA. A split amongst the major European powers over the world role of US imperialism does not make integration any