Policy | Socialist Action 1983

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at the June 1985 Milan EEC summit -namely, lo begin to European states would formulate common foreign policy ticularly on defence matters.

Nor is such collaboration confined 1o the battlefield The Franco-German Eureka project, a of the EH101 programme which aims to fund and coordinate basic research among EEC previous countries and was initiated as a direct response 1o Star claimed non-military. therefore, that its prestige project - a supercomputer found, as its principal backer, to the tune of £6.5 million, no other than the Ministry of Defence.

What is the reason for all this? And such is a 'non-aggresive' possibility? The simple answer is that as long as Europe is aggressive Western Europe. is a coniradiction in terms. Its whole function and purpose is lo present capitalist front against the USSR, that aggression is written into its very However more specific and immediate causes lie behind the recent acceleration of the European arms race -positions, par weapons industry.

economies Wars, is often proStrange, can has less.

Europe divided, Illal Kel La united so peaceful to squeeze its capitalist rivals. pumped billions of dollars into his war machine, but his machine : was a closed and protected market. US defence contractors enjoyed the benefits of huge of Where French manufacturers make ships in batches averaging at most 13, their US rivals count on orders averaging British firms produce an average of 800 aircraft per run: US firms 2000. US unit costs are therefore nearly 40 percent To match this threat, capital understood very quickly that it had to transcend national boundaries Europe-wide military When John Maynard Keynes launched the idea of the welfare state on the world, he believed that the Western nalions could save their economies if they put the same economic resources into construction they had previously put into war. The 'salvation' offered by loday's heads of state whether in the USA or the EEC - is to reverse this equation.

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Socialist Action 17 January 1986

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Reagan's new economic policy also used the USA's military predominance