Humiliated | Socialist Action 1983

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But in the last couple of weeks it has become clear that this game is more or less played out. West German foreign minister Genscher's visit two weeks ago was a fiasco and after it, the New York Times commented (29 Soviet bloc, to Moscow Socialist Action 8 June 1984 economic and social strains within the the puli Western Europe decisively back under US control and ensure that West European capital does not inflict serious damage on American capital, as it has been doing in various *special relationship' Washington. In other words, the influence of the British state would be maintained and enhanced by being the most loyal client state of Washington. thereby getting Washington's backing 'leading' European ally cn As soon as the Euro-elections are out of the way two Franco-German initiatives will be unveilled: the revival of the Western European Union, and further measures to tighten West Europeal presented to American initiatives in the off as much movement's possible. Their real purpose will be to re-integrate Western Europe and the US in a new partnership hatcher • has done more: she has trumpetted all the catch phrases of Reaganite ideology on every possible occasion. In return she got her own survival in the thanks to the indispensible US military and logistic support in the Falklands war. Apart from that it has been one long tale of humiliation: she asked for 'dual key' and was turned down flat, her needs were ignored over Grenada, she wasn't allowed to pull out of Belize, she was publically lambasted for doing underhand military trade with Iran, she was threatened by Bush British nuclear talks between Moscow. watch helplessly does business with France and Germany over the future power relations in the Atlantic Alliance.

Both will be antimedia to or ine peace anti-Reagan energies as until all this, power;

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peace with having weapons inrown Her Washington and And now she is forced to while Washington integrating WITH AlL OUR "Thank The British establishment thought recentis slates America's key partner in Europe was assured by two factors. It could pull rank on the FRG by being a nuclear and it could pull rank on the French by being firmly entrenched in the central institution of the Atlantic Alliance, NATO. Trident would make the first factor secure, while slavishly following Washington's demands for 3 annual growth defence budgets would shore up the second facToday all that is in ruins. , The catchword in Washington and Europe is for the increasing conventionalisation of NATO in the aftermath of the huge movemen mobilisations with American high technology •deep strike' conventional weapons looming on the horizon. Secondly, Washingtor formalistic as to insist France rejoining the NATO command structure when the task required is t provide a new political framework fo the people of Westen

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Europe into the Atlantic system. Thus Thatcherite becoming justified on /CHEMICA WARFARE since the US insists on this. It would be leftist grounds of Party any chance) then the left must go Scargill's way against nukes and US bases has been a grave blow to the anti-war struggle.

The order may come from a longer-term challenge that is now only beginning to appear on the horizon. Reagan has kept the political legitimacy of Atlanticism through the electoral victories of Thatcher and Kohl and through Mitterand's willingness to sqander the resources of the French left on a wild turn to the right. have been heavy.

send real threat to Reagan's new But the costs of this operation And as US capital did much to create all this after the war. But now the l capitalists are in a very ugly mood and the big question, now that Reagan has re-asserted US political control over Western Europe is whether US capita! will go in for the kill on the economic front. More and more, US ascendanc! is going to drive European capital into an ever more desperate struggle against the workers of Western Europe to keep their end up against the Americans. destroys and hah lens ela for old- that happens welfarism style Social Democratic politics, and in.

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