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Saturday August 31, 2002 22:00 by Malatested - Anarchist Federation Ireland ireaf at yahoo dot ie
The Government’s declaration at the Seville summit in June has it that “Nor is Ireland party to any plans to develop a European Army”. EU Commission President Romano Prodi said it well “If you don’t want to call it a European army, don’t call it a European army. You can call it ‘Margaret’, you can call it ‘Mary-Anne’, you can find any name”. Rapid Reaction Force The name they have found is the “Rapid Reaction Force” and the Irish Government is committed to this project, giving it millions of euro, as well as troops. All this is justified by lofty visions of crusading knights coming to right the world’s wrongs in Bosnia or Rwanda. If only the world hadn’t “turned a blind eye” then. This is, of course, based on an unmentioned assumption, it is decided without discussion that the purpose of the array of death delivering weaponry horded by London, Berlin and Washington is to save life. The most powerful states on the planet are actually charities, they are just not very good at it, hence the world’s problems. An examination of reality, without the assumption, shows something different. Intervention for human rights and peace is only for when the TV cameras are on, the rest of the time it’s intervention for profit and plunder. Privatisation Privatisation, in order to turn a profit, attracts investment, and competes in the marketplace, makes for increased costs for the consumer and lower wages and worse working conditions for the worker. The EU The privatisation agenda, and resistance to it, has already hit the education systems across Europe. For instance, in May and June students across Germany went on strike, demonstrated, blocked roads and briefly occupied a TV station and the buildings of the ruling SPD party, in response to the introduction of fees for what was formerly free education. Likewise Spain has seen massive demonstrations, and the mass protests at E.U. Summits in Brussels (last December), and Seville (June) have had ‘student blocs’. |