RSF: Defend Sovereignty-Neutrality-Democracy: Vote No!
Defend Sovereignty - Neutrality - DemocracyVote No to Lisbon!
The Lisbon Treaty lays the basis for the creation of a European super state; already 80% of 26-County domestic law is subservient to EU laws and directives.
• The Lisbon Treaty introduces a clause which gives the EU Council of ministers the right to extend its powers without the need for a further treaty
• The Lisbon Treaty will remove the requirement for any further extension of EU power to be voted on by the Irish people in referenda
• The Lisbon Treaty paves the way for the creation of an EU army. Already EU military staffs EU 'Battle groups' have been set up which can operate 2,500 miles outside the borders of the EU. The Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution will militarise the EU even, committing the 26-County State to a 'mutual - defence' commitment and removing the need for a referendum in the future on any new commitments to EU defence.
• Whilst health services such as cancer care in the 26 Counties face huge cuts in essential funding provision is being made for increased military spending to meet EU military commitments under the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution.
•The presence of 26-County troops in Chad, supporting a French colonial proxy war with China - who are propping up the regime in neighbouring Sudan- over oil reserves, highlights the nature of the military "tasks" that the 26-County state will be expected to perform.Almost 100 years after the First World War, is yet another generation of Irish people to be sacrificed on foreign battlefields in the interests of European capitalism and imperialism?
• The Lisbon Treaty represents an attack on both political and economic
democracy.
• This leads to a society where the needs of the 'market' are placed over all others, including the right to a job and a decent wage, where the best public services only go to those who can pay the most
•The 'Laval ruling' of the European Court of Justice set the "free movement of goods and services" as superior to the right of workers to strike. Again the Lisbon Treaty will further this agenda, placing competition above the rights of working people.
• By voting NO to the Lisbon Treaty you are opposing the creation of an
undemocratic superstate, increased militarisation, the erosion of neutrality, the privatisation of public services and unfettered capitalism.
Republican Sinn Féin, 223 Parnell St, Dublin 1
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Defend Sovereignty - Neutrality - Democracy