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EU leaders in the castle - we'll take the streets

category national | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis author Wednesday March 31, 2004 14:14author by WSM Report this post to the editors

Mayday Mayday

On Saturday, the first of May, anarchists and other activists from the Dublin Grassroots Network are calling for a day of action and protest against the EU.

According to the government Mayday is going to be Bertie’s big day out as EU president. This is the day - traditionally workers’ day - when the EU will officially expand. The government is planning on ‘celebrations’ for the population, while the 25 heads of state will be wined and dined in Farmleigh house. We intend May 1st to be the highlight of a full bank holiday weekend of opposition to some of the things we think are wrong with the EU: neo-liberalism, militarism and Fortress Europe.

Neo-Liberalism:
In 2000 the leaders of the EU came up with a plan called the Lisbon Agenda. Essentially this targets education, healthcare and services like gas, electricity, the postal services and transport for privatisation. Before the government can privatise public services it has to make them attractive to potential investors. In Ireland the FF/PD coalition is doing this by introducing bin taxes, stealth fees for third level education and by attempting to sell off the most lucrative routes operated by Dublin Bus. Privatisation means reducing costs by lowering wages, cutting staff and increasing the cost to the consumer while delivering worse services.

Militarism:
Just as the business policies of the European Union are based on looking after the fat cats, so too is its foreign policy. As the European Union develops into a more cohesive economic unit it needs to be able to ‘defend’ its interests. The development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Rapid Reaction Force allows for this to proceed and together they form the basis of a European Army.

Fortress Europe:
While the leaders of these accession states might be welcome in the EU (along with their farms and sweat-shops), most of the current EU countries will remain closed to the people of the accession states for the next 6 years. In advance of joining the EU these countries have had to open their borders to the flow of money, and to close their borders to anyone outside the new Europe. The EU’s repressive anti-immigrant policies claimed the lives of at least 3,000 people between 1993 and June 2003, people drowned in the Mediterranean, were electrocuted at the Channel Tunnel and suffocated in Wexford. This is 10 times as many as were killed at the Berlin Wall during its 30-year history.

The Irish government currently holds the presidency of the EU and its behaviour typifies what’s wrong with the EU: the attempt to implement the bin charges continues and the ministerial meetings that have taken place so far have been surrounded by expensive police operations. To cap it all off, the first ‘achievement’ of the Irish presidency was the establishment of a ‘repatriation fund,’ to allow the wealthy countries to share the costs of deporting people.

We aim to show them that their plans won’t succeed, that they can’t just impose their agenda on us and decide our fate without our opposition. We’ll be out in the streets on May 1st. We hope to see you there.

Related Link: http://struggle.ws/wsm/eu.html
author by Joepublication date Thu Apr 01, 2004 13:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Party for the people - nah that would cost business too much. Sure it was a nice idea but its hardly what the EU is about

author by jhpublication date Wed Mar 31, 2004 15:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

the celebrations are under doubt cos now on oconnell street

apparently they would have had to block off oconnel street for five day and surround streets would be effected

te traders are being quoted as saying they refuse this

but im not sure that city being closed down for five days would be good for anyone...

of course smithfield was built for outdoor concerts dunno why they can't do it there?

so anyway as you see the gov can't organise a street party at all so you all jsut have to come to our one

 
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