The mask is beginning to slip

The Communist Party of Ireland, asked workers to take note of the forces
now gathering to push for a Yes vote on the Lisbon Treaty.


Intel Corporation and previously the American Chamber of Commerce in
Ireland—the mouthpiece of American corporations in Ireland—have called
for a Yes vote. These are the same people who actively block workers
from joining a trade union, who refuse their workers the right to be
represented by a trade union of their democratic choice.


Intel’s announcement that it may spend up to €200,000 in promoting a Yes
vote - possibly more than the combined total being spend by the various
no campaigns - should send a clear message to all workers that big
corporations, those that deny workers the right to join a trade union,
are the driving force behind the Lisbon Treaty, both here in Ireland and
throughout the European Union.


Based on the provisions of previous treaties, institutions such as the
EU Court of Justice have already delivered rulings in the Laval, Rüffert
and Luxembourg cases against workers’ rights, making them subservient to
the rights of corporate Europe.


The Communist Party of Ireland went on to state that the Charter of
Fundamental Rights would not give workers any additional rights, workers
rights are in fact conditional on what the “market” requires. This is
the real reason that USA corporations and big business support the
Lisbon Treaty as it copper fastens this central approach at the very
heart of ever deeper EU integration.

Communist Party of Ireland