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Socialist Resistance Rouge- ESF Special | page 9

This is scanned newsprint, not web text. The original PDFs carried no text layer at all, so every word here was read off the page by OCR. Expect dropped opening letters, run-together words and wrong characters. There was no contents page to cut the paper up by, so the articles were found from the size of their headlines: a headline may carry its kicker, and where an article ran beside a boxed panel a few lines of the neighbour can appear. The scanned issue is the authority; this text is here so the words can be found at all.

fo EWRO den NO TO A BIG BUSINESS EUROPI interest", the systematic privatisation of public services and social security is made to seem inevitable in the name of "efficiency" and "quality". Big capitalist companies will see these as very lucrative areas in which to get involved.

To make it all seem less awful, the defenders of the constitution emphasise the inclusion of the Charter of Fundamental Rights adopted in 2000.

Yet the principles regarding social rights and secularism are weaker than those of the European Convention of the Rights of Man (sic) or the United Nations' Charter.

In any case, this Charter does have any means of enforcement.

The Constitution refuses to take into account the social gains which have been won in different countries by a century and a half of working class struggles.: the laws