Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

Socialist Worker
Letters Page
Dear comrade editor
As a once active member and now long time supporter I note with some
dismay Socialist Worker trotting out the same old ‘EU is a bosses club and
cannot be reformed’ with mention of unelected bureaucrats to ram home your
partisan LEAVE message and ... to all intents and purposes for everyone to see
… share that flatulent argument and a putrid-smelling platform with UKIP and
other assorted bigots.
The EU is a bosses club, this we know, I have no illusions about the EU, but
also have absolutely no illusions in the uk parliament, its voting system, or its
unelected second chamber - the exclusive, up-your-arse house of lords (no
capitals required!). This referendum is a distraction, since when have our government,
and their paymasters (big business) allowed the citizenry to decide on
anything supposedly this important? Either way the vote goes - they don’t give
a shit - they believe ‘they’ will still be in the saddle!
As internationalists we should be promoting joint cross-border worker action
to break down big companies ability to play worker against worker by shifting
work and money about the EU (and the world) for their profit-margins, arguing
for active support of French strikers … this we can do better within the EU. To
break the stranglehold the EU rightwing have on the rights and movement of
migrants/refugees/immigrants, and deliver on Socialist Workers’ ‘They are all
welcome’ message, we should be appealing to cross-border action, not proposing
we side with those who want to skulk in an off-shore walled-up island
patrolled by peak-capped border guards. We need to be in Europe arguing for
no borders.
We should be (and are) for the overthrow of ALL ‘bosses clubs’!
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Alan Rutherford
ex-Cheltenham SWP
June 2016