SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Building a socialist Europe

· Socialist Action No. 23, 2 September 1983 · p. 11 of the scan · 419 words

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page 11 of the scan

I UNDERSTAND that a number of senior Oxford Oxford COLICO. dons would like to put a blue plaque on a certain house in Bullingdon Road commemorating it as a place of national inMrs. Marcos WASTE NOT want not. That's a golden rule according to Ivirs Imelaa Marcos, Milipses be of FerdiDOSS nand. Marcos. years since her husband was elected as president she has saved over £300 terest. are hoping that British Leyland management, Bruce Kent the donation so it can be preserved as an historic millions of her housekeeping money Mind you, she is dead careful about how she spends her money. Good Catholic, she had toego lo nome wnen Iney Inaugurated John Paul I as 'God's representative on I AM amazed by the convoluted logic of John Palmer, Jackie McDonough and others (SA 18 August) who argued that British membership or non membership of the EEC is not an issue we should marked who keeps promises, Benigno - was NIC.

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The demand for withdrawal, they say, , is a nationalist diversion trom more important struggles.

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Such demands would. for example, include:

* EEC funds for the nationalisation of key industries and of firms creating redundancie:

Abolition of the Common Agricultural roney * A European minimum * Free health care * Full and equal citizenship rights Britain out of Ireland and France out of Chad European socialist public transport policy A non-nuclear energy policy; no arms sales to repressive regimes; no nuclear weapons in Western Europe.

These demands and the demand for withdrawal aren't based on 'know nothing Chauvinism' but on a firn committment to international socialism , which includes a committment to improve the living conditions of working people in Britain and Europe and beyond.

Our basic aim must be Europe by breaking up the EEC and urging socialist comrades in Europe to toin us in this struggle and in campaigns for international socialist policies such as those outlined above.

London W6

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