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During the 19th and 20th century, many attempts were made to obtain unification of the European states. At the same time, the most powerful countries of Europe, especially Germany, have struggled to widen their influences also in the areas of Eastern Europe. At the end, all these efforts ended with no result. But today, it seems that the "dream" of the century is going to be realized by the second enlargement step of EU. Imperialist countries of EU, first and foremost the German imperialism, have come to the level of finishing the century's project. In Copenhagen, this issue is being dealt.
If we leave Turkey aside -whose situation is argumentative - the broad majority of 10 countries out of 11 candidate countries for membership (the Check Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Malta, Latonia, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Greek Cyprus Side), are situated in East and South-central Europe. By the membership of these countries, the EU's geographical expansion area is going to involve almost whole Europe, and EU to extend to Ukrainian and Russian borders in the East, to the Caucasus and eastern Mediterranean as region.
Who is going to benefit from this expansion? According to the EU imperialists and the bourgeoisies of the candidate countries, this enlargement is going to be useful for both sides; new members are also going to be welfare states! This has absolutely nothing to do with reality. EU is going to give just a few crumbs to these countries but will keep the cake for itself. This countries will form a protecting wall for the heartlands, the fortress Europe. These countries are going to be investment and marketing areas for the capital of EU, especially for the German Monopoly Capital. There isn't going to be any equality, in anywhere, in between these countries and the imperialist heartlands of the EU. Through this enlargement, the EU is going to bind these regions to itself as modern colonies. The interests of the French imperialism have played a determining role during the southern enlargement of the EU, but in the eastern enlargement, the interests of the German imperialism have played a determining role. In Copenhagen, the German imperialism is going to approve his enlargement towards east in the EU.
This enlargement shows that the rivalry between the EU and USA, especially in between the German imperialism and American imperialism has gained new quality. To see this, one should consider the Enlargement to the East of the NATO, which was passed in Prague in November, and the Enlargement to the East of the EU, together; because, the NATO's eastwards expansion that resulted in Prague and EU's eastwards expansion, which is to be organized in Copenhagen now, are both related with each others. Two different imperialist powers are entering into a new rivalry period in the same geographical region: On one hand the German imperialism, under the name of the enlargement of the EU to the East, and on the other hand the American imperialism, under the name of NATO's eastwards expansion, are coming face-to-face in the same region. The American imperialism is surrounding and controlling EU, which reached to the borders of Russia and Ukraine, militarily and from the inside by making these countries members of NATO. The American imperialism aims to stop EU, whose borders will reach to the borders of Middle-East and Caucasus after the eastwards expansion, through the NATO. Because of this, the American imperialism, also through NATO, will spread itself militarily within the area which especially the German imperialism declared to be its expansion area under the name of the eastwards expansion of the EU. The same region is going to become dependent on both sides, militarily to the NATO, which means USA, and economically to the EU, which means Germany.
The Enlargement of the NATO and the EU to the East is aggravating the rivalry between the USA and EU, especially the rivalry between the American imperialism and the German imperialism on East and Middle Europe, and adds this new dimensions to this rivalry.
Both enlargements are being developed in the shadow of an imperialist war possibility against Iraq. In the Prague Summit, the American imperialism had demand support on a possible war against Iraq, and received support also from the German imperialism, who was standing against (!) the war. One way or another, the possible war will come to the agenda of the EU's Copenhagen Summit.
The struggle against both enlargements must be connected with the struggle against the imperialist war on Iraq and with the struggling perspective for another world. Another Europe, another world is possible. But, this can only be possible by destroying the existing exploitation system; capitalism, and by establishing socialism. For this reason, struggle against EU's enlargement means struggle against imperialism, exploitation and plunder.
NO TO EU!
DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM/CAPITALISM!
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONALISM OF THE PROLETARIAT!
LONG LIVE SOCIALISM!
MLCP (MARXIST-LENINIST COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY/NORTHERN KURDISTAN) OVERSEAS COM MIT TEE
December 2002
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