Translated "Avante!"article by Ângelo Alves, Member of the PCP Political Committee
Many ballots are to take place in the United Kingdom, on the withdrawal from the European Union and ought to determinate its outcome, this week (this article was written before the ballots). During the last weeks, the ideological propaganda and the pressure, centered on political and economic blackmail, overpassed the limits. The objective was to pervert and revert, unto the end, the British’s people decision, by changing its sovereign decision into a terrible “sin”, and place in the sacrosanct “Union” list the “No exit” commandment. Donald Tusk verbalized the ex-communion of “the Brexit promotors ”by stating that for those there were to be “a place in Hell”.
Along with many elements of the capitalist integration crisis process, deepening and connected, manipulation, appeals to irrationality and populism drench official speeches, that seek to contain resistances, condition the choices in the coming elections and try to come out from the morass via a run forward. The very recent example is Emanuel Macron’s “Letter” addressed to the “European citizens”.
Macron, In a text riddled amid the old tactic of fear and the home and foreign enemy, develops a mist of manipulation, dramatization and populism in order to repeat the “ More Europe” thesis clichés (read More European Union) to confront the “dangers” the “Brexit is the symbol of”.
Nevertheless, Macron’s text holds a virtue: it states specifically what it comes up with, and therefore it ends up by disassemble the misleading propaganda. Macron desires to “ defend freedom”, and -words, what ought to be a kind of ideological Troika, to impose the European Union “democratic” rules, control the internet, define how all Europe’s political parties are to be financed, and “banish hate and violence speeches”, not defining which.
He desires to “protect the continent”, so he proposes a “treaty” and a “ Security European Counsel”, increase of military expenditure, and a “clause on operational mutual defense”, in other words, tie down all the peoples to a Franco-German Axe militarist and interventionist strategy, namely concerning Macron greatest priority – Africa – celebrating the very best colonialist traditions. And he proposes that Brussels ought to “ punish or forbid strategic companies that prejudice our interests”, impeding the states to develop their own external policies at economic and trade levels.
He desires to “recover the progress spirit”. More specifically he proposes that the European Union ought to define our salaries, including the SMN, “adapted to each country”. He wishes to create a “ European Climate Bank”, a “European Sanitary Force”, a “ European supervision of the great digital platforms” and a “ new European Innovation Counsel with “ a USA comparable budget”. One feels like posing the question: why national governments?!
Macron desires “ more and rapidly” with “no taboos, nor even the treaties revision”. And if necessary, at “different rhythms”. Following the Portuguese well-known expression, “ its sink or swim”. But Macron’s imperial dream has a problem: PEOPLES. And it ought to sink…and break up!