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The European project is not about fostering peace – it’s about fostering capitalism
Capitalism gives only what we can extract from it – so if they give us a European Parliament which no-one ever asked for, let alone demonstrated for, you should smell a rat, says STEVE McGIFFEN

MY appreciation of Syriza has not really changed since the Greek capitulation to the Brussels-Frankfurt gang. 

Syriza used to be Synaspismos, and the majority in that party never did really “get” the European Union, what it is, what it’s for and how those things make it unreformable. No matter. Until 10 years ago I worked alongside them in the European Parliament and they consistently voted against neoliberal proposals. 

The same goes for the party I represented on the secretariat of the United European Left, the Socialist Party of the Netherlands (SP), though they were and remain much closer to “getting” the EU. 

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