Thursday 24 March 2011

The war in Libya and pan European action against the cuts

Seamus Milne tells it like it is in the Guardian. The French view of the war in Libya. I have just returned from France where the television is full of generals announcing attack details and images of aircraft carriers steaming through the Med. The local elections have just been held there also and the Front Nationale has done very well. There is a great deal of speculation that Sarkozy is masquerading as a war leader to catch up on the Front Nationale. They, for their part, have been making the most of the refugees fleeing across the Med into Lampedusa and Mlle Le Pen has been to visit the island and make hay from the refugee crisis. Italy recently turned away a ferry full of refugees from Tunisia, Chad and Niger fleeing the conflict. So much for the conscience of Europe!

I am off tonight to an international meeting of SERTUC (South East Region TUC) to speak about a pan European conference against the cuts which Coalition of Resistance is organising in London on October 1st. Speakers tonight including Christine Blower (NUT general secretary), Jimmy Kelly (Unite Irish regional secretary), Didier Louvet (CGT Nord-Pas de Calais region, France), Fernando Puig-Samper (CCOO Spain), Owen Tudor (TUC head of European Union and International Relations dept) and probably someone from Wisconsin.

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