Re: [A-List] Re: EWP

[Mark Jones <markjones011@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 23-10-02 11:23, Domhnall wrote:

> First of all, I sent the mail offlist to Mark Jones as I didn't really want
> to stunt the discussion here.

Sorry if I was in error, I thought this contribution was so useful I wanted 
to use it!

I'm a bit behind with posts and want to respond fully to what's been said 
on this thread. I'm also getting feedback offlist including this from our 
good friends Nestor who says:

> BTW: I like your idea of the European Workers Party. But one of the issues
> you did not seem to broach is immediate incorporation into the EU of _every_
> country to the West of Ukraine and Belarus, particularly in the Balkan case,
> with an additional proviso that the Western bourgeoisies should pay the bill
> for the reconstruction of the area. If you don´t take this point as a
> central one in your propositions, then you risk generating simply another
> privileged labor formation, which is precisely what Mark Jones does not want
> to do. A united European workers´ party for _every_ European worker, not
> only for the relatively privileged EU workers!

This is where Michael and I agree 100%. Europe from the Urals to the 
Dardanelles--that is our motto. It is not just Central and Eastern Europe 
which is at issue. Why is Turkey being excluded? That is an outrage and a 
disgrace. It is hardly even necessary to spell out the disgusting rationale 
for the kind of thinking which leads to the exclusion of 'Islamic' states. 
Yes, we are totally opposed to any kind of Festung Europa notion--any kind 
of Europe of the privileged.

I'm gonna write more later, gotta run.

Mark