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"The report on the ‘interest groups’, and well-known ‘lobbyists’, is a blatantly cynical admission of the deeply reactionary role of the European Parliament and the EU as a whole, and the class interests that it serves.
The European Parliament has for years officially sanctioned the right of representatives of monopoly groups to have free access to the European Parliament in order to apply pressure, bribe and insist on legislative interventions ensuring and increasing their profits.
Using the transparency rules as a pretext, the report tries to whitewash the direct intervention of monopolies. It brands trade-unions, professional and mass organisations as ‘lobbyists’. The workers’ and popular movement is thus lumped together with capitalists, whom the report has the nerve to describe as representatives of civil society. The only difference is that they find the doors of Parliament wide open to them, while the workers are not allowed near them.
Let the workers have no illusions. The European Parliament and its Members are not independent. They have been elected on a platform representing class interests which they represent in the European Parliament.
For the workers, the course that best serves their own interests is to overturn political groupings, weaken the capitalist parties, and resist and oppose a capitalist-orientated EU."@en1
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