Wedge Dec, Tigerss Box i;
DOX Nine, suffers accordingly. A MAJOR CRISIS faces the Common Market after last week's Dublin summit failed to reach agreement on the budget dispute between Britain The dispute is over the difference between what Britain puts into the Common Market and what it gets back. This is expected to rise to £1.2 billion The deficit arises because the vast bulk of the EEC budget (75 per cent) goes on farm spending. under the common agricultural policy (CAP) and Britain, as the least agricultural country of the But if these are the 'facts' of the dispute, they don't explain why it can't be solved in the usual developing international recession.
each national ruling class a drain on public expenditure is Marketeers.
election campaign next year.
As the capitalist world faces slump once more, begins to feel pressure. And none more so than the British. The crisis-ridden state of the economy means that such unacceptable.
Furthermore, it plays into the hands of the antiBut the other main countries in the EEC aren't over-inclined to play ball and help Thatcher out of her difficulties. The recession will affect them too, and they already have their own problems: the French government is in disarray after a series of scandals, while Chancellor Schmidt faces a bitter So Thatcher stands firm; even at the price of jeopardising the fragile institutions of the EEC which the capitalists look to in the long run to problems whichever option it takes. the the drawbridge.
been clearer. Instead to screw the working class.
across Europe coordinated nan for stee casure Europe, safeguard their profits. British capitalism faces But Thatcher has one advantage. By waving the Union Jack she disarms the Labour lefts whose only solution is to get out of the EEC and pull up The need for a socialist alternative has rarely lining up this confrontation to defend the national interest', it is necessary to show that this is g conflic between different sets of capitalists over how best By fighting for increasing working class unity — starting with issues like the EECwe can begin. to pose the only viable alternative to the Common Market: a United Socialist. States of