EU: With the rescheduled expansion

The war in Ukraine, The consequences of the economic crisis and inflation continue to be the central issues. Now, The authorities have relocated the Block expansion item to the agenda. It's one thing to say it and another to make it concrete.. It is necessary to apply for an alternative strategic project: a Europe of workers, without Borders, inequalities or racism.

Magnification, with or without calendar

On the Bled discussion forum, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, express: “We must set a clear objective. We must be prepared – on both sides – to expand in 2030.”During the fourth State of the EU message, the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen,talked about many topics, among them he raised the need for“Answering the call of history” and open the door to new additions. With and without deadline, both relocated the accession requests made at different times by Ukraine on the agenda, Moldavia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, North Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Serbia and Türkiye.

Summit and Countersummit

The next meeting of the prime ministers and Heads of State, called by Spain with Pedro Sánchez as rotating president of the EU, will be the days 5 Y 6 of October in the“Summit of the Alhambra”.We will see how the issue of enlargement is reflected there.. For now, The capitalist summit has already earned the rejection of the social sectors that call for the “Granada Social Summit” and, under the slogan “Another Granada, another Europe is possible” will hold events, talks and demonstrations, in which a delegation of Socialism and Freedom will participate (SOL), section of the LIS in the Spanish State. The questions about what is the EU? How is it and what would the expansion entail?? they are on the table.

More propaganda than reality

The Bloc is presented as an economic and democratic paradise and NATO that integrates, as a champion of world freedom. Both statements are false.. In the EU the only privileged people are businessmen and bankers, with inflation and social cuts, the standard of living of the working class is deteriorating. And there are not only anachronistic and parasitic monarchies, But the regimes are increasingly repressive and racist. Regarding NATO, It is the most murderous war organization on earth at the service of Western imperialist expansionism., which should be dissolved together with the CSTO.

A questioned project

The EU embodies a questioned project, hit by Brexit and has fallen behind North American and Chinese imperialism. Although they try to revive it, the crisis of the world capitalist economy, Inter-imperialist frictions in dispute for hegemony, The war in Ukraine and the workers' struggles raise doubts about the real possibility of a recovery and expansion on solid bases.   

“He who warns is not a traitor”

Even coming from semi-colonial countries with serious social and democratic deficiencies, Any acceptance of entry into the EU would imply harsh “belt tightening” for the vast majority and profits for a handful of local and foreign oligarchs.. The resignation of sovereignty and the territorial acceptance of troops and/or military bases to wage war. Without any of this implying a qualitative leap in the standard of living. There is another possible direction to take.

Neither “Europeans” nor “Eurosceptics”: Socialists

In the heat of mobilizations and strikes like those in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and other countries, new political tools must be forged. To overcome the reformists of the PSOE, summer, Unidas Podemos and others. To defeat the right and the extreme right of the PP and Vox. To fight for a bottom exit: governing the workers and the people, with a regime of workers' democracy in a socialist system and with the free Federation of European Socialist States.

Challenge and opportunity

The drift of SYRIZA, Podemos and other forces that first generated sympathy and then disappointment; It is a challenge and an opportunity at the same time.. Many political and union activists, for women's rights, immigrants and ecology, They are looking for new alternatives. It is necessary to postulate a front of the extreme left, headed by the CUP, anticapitalist, with IR, CR, CRT, IZAR and SOL and other groups. and go further, with the construction of a consistent left-wing party and promoting the regrouping of the revolutionaries, how does the International Socialist League (LIS).