"NO' TO THE CAPITALISTS' MARKET!

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Market is now firmly on the calendar.

dum itself will take place some time in June.

Wilson's decision to hold the referendum does not imply some disillusionment of the Labour leadership with Parliament. It is simply that the feeling about the Common Market runs so high in the labour movement that the referendum scheme was the only way to prevent the differences in the Party blowing it apart.

Wilson and the majority of the cabinet will certainly accept the terms of the renegotiated' settlement-no matter what they are. They are devoted supporters of the capitalist system, and understand that staying in the Common Market is a life-id-death question for Britain's capitalists.

But this is exactly the reason -that the working class should be opposed to the Common Market: IL is a capitalist institution, designed to strengthen the power of the ruling classes of the different countries within it.

The working class must meet the challenge of an internations! class cnemy by building its own international organisation through link-aps between workers in the same industry or malti-national firm, international solidarity actions with workers in struggle, and coordinated industrial actions. But at the same time we should do everything in our power to block the capitalists efforts to combine against the working class.

That means saying a loud No to the capitalists' Common MarketEvery worker • and every cubantlar BRITAIN'S LONG-AWAITED REFERENDUM on the Common EEC The Labour Government's renegotiations" with the other Market members are expected to finish by March, the 'new deal" will be served up to the electorate shortly after, and the referenvote aguirst the Common Market in the referendum.

But it would be wrong to think that the economic problems of Britain would be solved by getting out of the Market. In fuct, British capitalism would be worse off outside the EEC. The point is there is no solution to the problems of the working class under capitalism.

The fight to get Britain out of the EEC can and must be part of an all-round fight to get rid of the whole capitalist system in this country, and replace it with a planned, socialist cconomy run by and for the working people.

It is totally wrong for the workers movement to flirt with sections of the capitalist classoften the most reactionary circles in the fight to get Britain out of the EBC. Such co-operation only helps reactionaries like Enoch Powell and The National Front spread their poison among workers. These people are the deadly enenues of socialism and will divert the fight against the Common Market from the fight for socialism.

Both the FUC and the Labour Party have indicated that they will be holding special conferences to make their recommendation on The referendum. This is an impertant and useful step. The best move would be a joint conference of the whole labour movement which could speak out aguinst the Market with a powerful, united voice, and could at the same time haramer out a cocialet altematine is no need to wait until Marchfor the position of the workers movement should be: 'No to the capitalists Common Market-on any termir.

Eamonn McCan In any event, united local meetings of this kind should be organised immediately to educate and mobilise the workers' movement. There Put Arrowsmith, Alastair Renwick of TOM, and Mike Walsh of Birmingham Trades Council taking Trom te platorm or tne rally canco by tne Mancester oranen or the Troocs Out mow ment on January 26, to mobilise support for the demonstration and rally this weekend in London. Over 250 people att ended the meeting, which was chaired by Jennifer Dale of the Manchester TOM and the IMG. Other speakers included Caprino's employers-Selfridgescallously stated that as far as they are concerned Captino left their employ on 18 December to go abroad' It i intiportant that the movement set up to defend Capcino should not let hir bosies succeed where Roy Jenkins failer.

The Cappino case has revealed the dangerous powers which laws like the Immigration Act give to the state, and the willingness of Labour ministers to cooperate in their use against the labour movement. We must remin alert to prevent the state trying any more Caprico-style operations-whether they are under the timigration Act or the Prevention al Terrorism Act-and fight to get all these reactionary and repressave laws out of the bands of the

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