The Guardian 1 August, 2007
LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!
We say NO to the new EU Treaty!
Appeal by communist and workers’ parties of EU countries
The European Union is on the way to become a political, economic and military "Great Power". The leading politicians of the EU, who are not representing the people but rather the interests of the great industry, of the banks and of imperialism, have taken the necessary decisions for this development.
The so-called "Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe" that was meant to speed up this strategy, has collapsed due to the vote of the people in France and in the Netherlands, as well as due to the broad resistance of the people in the EU countries.
The ruling forces are now aiming to adopt a so called "reform treaty" or "EU Treaty", aimed to implement and to force a policy of social destruction and of militarisation in a more reactionary direction and on conventional basis, against the interests of the people.
The military policy of the EU goes in direct concurrency with the aggressive policy of the USA and is at the same time deepening the dependence on the US policy. With the aim to deprive the peoples from their vested right to directly decide, the new text will be called "EU Treaty" instead of "Constitution". This treaty shall be discussed and adopted by an Intergovernmental Conference behind closed doors.
The communist and workers’ parties of EU countries say NO to such new Treaty as well as to the method of its adoption behind the people’s back. All people — be they workers, peasants, employees, unemployed, homeless, pupils or students — must have the same right to decide as the politicians, no matter whether in the national legislation of their countries the possibility for a referendum is given or not.
We demand the total disclosure of the entire content of the "EU Treaty" including all supplementary previsions.
We demand to put the "EU Treaty" for decision by the peoples of all EU countries.
We call upon the citizen in all EU countries:
Say NO to the organised social destruction and to the further militarisation of the EU!