FOLLOWING 'humiliation' at the EEC summit, depending on which paper you read, answer the simple favour. of immediate believe the answer should be an emphatic response from any of the four candidates for the Labour leadership.
While Roy Hattersley has made no secret of his. opposition to Party policy on the question, for Peter Shore and Neil Kinnock it represents a hinted that 'a lot can happen' to policy over the next five years.
The capitalist press are licking their lips over such an easy victory for the campaign they have been pressing against Labour's central policy should the labour movement be favour of immediate renegotiation of the Treaty of Rome? First and foremost because the Common Market is the multinationals' market.
The objective of the Common Market when it was established was to rationalise Europe capitalism.
The Tories made much of the argument that withdrawal from the EEC would result in the loss of two and a half million during the election.
spokespeople could showing that the decimation of the dustry and the hit-list for the coal industry were examples of the Common Market's rationalisation policy.
The reason is not just the perfidy of those who ran Labour's campaign — although that was the chief factor. The fact is that withdrawal from the Common Market by a Labour government will signal the beginning of a break by Britain with the laws of the international capitalist order millions to misery and wastes the massive productive resources which this country still has.
There would be retaliation, as there has been against other countries who have taken such a step - Nicaragua being the latest exampie. therefore have to introduce further measures to tionalisation of foreign trade would be absolutely A massive step towards a planned economy would have to be taken. This is the main reason why Labour's leaders Tories have policies.
Withdrawal from the EEC only makes sense in the context of a socialist economic policy. The task therefore is not to drop the commitment for immediate withdrawal Market, but to make it more consistent by spelling out the consequences of withdrawal and the policies necessary to meet them.
The hopetuls the especially those who claim to be left candidates, should note that their eagerness to abandon conference policy is not shared by the rank and file.
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