The European Union (EU) is anti-democratic, anti-socialist and failing economically. With low and negative economic growth, 25-per-cent unemployment and 50-per-cent youth unemployment in some member states, living standards cut by a quarter in Greece, forced privatizations and restrictions on collective bargaining rights as conditions of bailouts, the true nature of the EU is now plain to see.
Free movement of labour is designed simply to reduce wages and reduce wage-bargaining strength. The Laval and Viking Line cases where the European Court ruled in favour of employers and against trade unions made a nonsense of the supposed EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and were a clear indicator of the directions of travel being steered by the EU’s masters. Raising up the market and market forces against elective democracy was evident from the start in its original name, the Common Market, and was opposed at the time by British socialists including Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan and Hugh Gaitskell.
