THE Fourth International I participating in the electorul divert the campaign for the European Parliament to ensure that an internationalist and capitalist voice will be heard, * voice speaking out for workers, for women, for the oppressed nationalities, the youth, for the immigrants.
It will seck to show that in the face of the coordinated international actions of the European bourgeoisies. necessary and possible develop a united response by the European working class fo fight for the same objectives In all the countries.
The European Parliament will serve above all as a body to rubber-stump the decisions already taken by the states and governments that defend the Interests of capital in the nine countries of the European Community - a community founded totally principles of the capitalist market economy.
This means forcing the workers to bear the burden of unemployment and of attacks on living standards democratic freedoms.
The ure not.
however, simply an attempt to attention of TrOm the problems that confront them from day to day. They are not merely a propaganda operathe tion to try to European institutions.
The clections яге intended to reinforce tions designed to help the Earopean bourgeoisies arrive at and formulate measures and it is goals for protecting interests against enemies and competitors.
Working people huve nothing to hope for and nothing to delend in this Market The workers have nothing in common with this Europe the trusts and banks, with this neo-colonialist Europe continues to exploit its old colonies, with this Imperialist the Europe allied militurily with US Irreconcilable opponents of the Institutions of this Europe... (from the Fourth International platform for the clections, und published in Intercontinental Press/Inprecor, 5 1979)
For to run for office. the such clections would be to run We affirm that our goal in grave refurbish also institutheir all their THE social-democratic platform) (from the Fourth International The clection laws in many of The European Council in session of the campaign. The first, in Turin on 19.20 May, will be a debale with other currents of the left on the fight for a socialist Europe Two weeks later, on 2-3 June in Antwerp, there will be conterence worker militants to discuss how this light B being built in the struggles going on today in the motor industry, steel, etc One particular theme of the FI's campaign will be against them cric Europe. This will imperialist Tole concentrate especially on the need for solidarity with struggle for self-determination The IMG will be organising as part of this campaign on Friday 1 June in Porchester Hall, London. For as instruments of the capitalists in the permanent coonomic war which they conduct against each other, to detriment all the All those who want no more bloody wars, all chose against the economic wars which bring on crisis, unemploymenr and poverty, must be able to say so in these election Untied We are for Socialist States of Europe. The workers of the Soviet Unior and the "people's democracies' the must be assured of the tota solidarity of the workers of Western Europe in their fight against the bureaucratic caste of the Kremlin, which from Prague to Moscow deals out psychiatric treatment, tanks, and the Gulag All those who think that socialism bas nothing to the bloody which Stalin and his successors have imposed on the peoples of GIVE GENEROUSLY details of the Turin and Antwerp conferences write to: IMG, c/o PO Box 50, London NI2AP the USSR and Eastern burope must be able to say so by voting for a revolutionary communist slate..
The rational organisation of the cconomy in place of the capitalist anarchy, the develop ment of real relations of solidarity between the workers of all nations, the flourishing of all the cultures stifled by the machine of the oppressor bourgeois state reguires the end of the national states and establishment of a free federated Socialist United States of all Europe by the European workers themselves.
That wouk Tepresent gigantic step towards the universal republic of the workers, towards a socialist federation hunger, ignorance, poverty and war would he banished for CyCT..
Socialist Challenge 10 May 1979 page 11