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The positions taken in the Watson report on an initiative at EU level to combat terrorism seriously threaten to undermine grass-roots movements and democratic freedoms. The aim of this initiative, so the rapporteur says, is to ensure that all the Member States adopt minimum legal rules relating to the constituent elements of criminal acts and to penalties in the field of terrorism. The rapporteur considers beyond all doubt that the ΕU has achieved such a level of democratic operation that taking recourse to any method other than democratic dialogue or settling conflicts through the channels provided should be made a criminal offence. He calls on the Member States to take effective measures to prevent “violent” groups from forming or a “support framework for terrorists” from being created and maintained.
It is clear, I think, from the above that the sole purpose of this whole diatribe is to terrorise and subjugate anyone and everyone who opposes the violent attack unleashed by the global capitalist system, especially now that the Socialist system has been overturned. Using the pretext of justified opposition to the often suspicious motives behind personal terrorism, its purpose is to crush the new and successful mass uprising in Europe against the anti-grass roots policies and new imperialist order, as expressed at both national and European level (e.g. Nice, Gothenburg and, most importantly, Genoa), if possible as it arises.
The voices of European government officials equating demonstrators with criminals and terrorists are still ringing in our ears. The aim now is to further strengthen and harmonise the criminal arsenal available to the Member States for dealing with terrorism. It will not be long before demonstrations and any form of civil disobedience are banned and made criminal offences. The unanimous decision taken recently by the EU Council of Justice and Internal Affairs, which met immediately after the demonstrations in Gothenburg and just before the demonstrations in Genoa, points in this direction.
Surely the abolition of the right to congregate and the violent suppression of the mass demonstrations in Gothenburg and Genoa are acts of terrorism? Surely the two people killed by the Swedish and Italian state terrorists are the victims of terrorist action and deserve compensation? The Belgian Presidency has already started intensive preparations to take even more violent action against “street terrorists” in the run up to the demonstrations being planned to coincide with the Laeken Summit.
Greece is one of the countries which recently pushed through special legislation supposedly designed to fight terrorism and organised crime. This law, which was voted through by a couple of dozen MPs present in the house, constitutes a direct threat to the democratic freedoms which the Greek people have fought and died for; it abolishes fundamental rights and places civil and trade union action directly in the line of fire of government high-handedness. A broad spectrum of high-profile democrats, trades union and other social organisations has rallied against it.
It is for these reasons that the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece voted against the report."@en1
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