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- Bombardier factory
- Thatcher to Blair
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Democracy
- EU support plummets
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- Dare less democracy
- Direct democracy at stake
- End of democracy
Imperialism=Globalisation
- Imperialist EU - Ukraine
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- EU & benign globalisation
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- Thatcher and EU Monopolies
- Globalisation is Imperialism
- TUC opposes Mode 4 (FTA)
- Finance Capital v Workers
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- Opposition increases
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- Financial crisis
- Trade union rights
- Empire lust by Labour
- World privatisation
- EU & Imperialism
  - Global war plans
  - Sierra Leone
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  - Rice Montains
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- 1.EU & Third World - Lome
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- EU and USA
- No escape to NAFTA
Manufacturing
- BAe - an industrial strategy
- Revivin Manufacturing
- Bombardier - TUC statement
- Bombardier factory
- Road to hell
- Factory closures
- Battle for manufacturing
Social Europe
- Social Europe is a Con
- Social Europe is Anti-Social Europe
- Greece - Social Partnership
- Banker's oligarchy
- What Social Europe? Blair
- Means imposing euro
- Tony Benn review-pamphlet
- European Social Model
- ESC-heart of Social Europe
Military and Police
- EU Battle Group to Africa
- EU war aims
- EU wants more money
- NATO calls on EU to spend more on military
- European Army
- Eurocorps and NATO
- Ring around China
- Watch Out - [Survailance]
- EU military control centre
- Anglo-French Declaration
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- Police State
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- Military matters-Sudan
- EU militarisation
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- Stop the War
- Germany & Kaliningrad
- Unravelling history
  - Military aspects of the EU
  - The Balkans
  - EU and Kosovo
- Review CFSP pamphlet
View from Germany
- Collapse of left
- Intervention in Syria
- Commemoration Train
- Alternative for Germany
- Germany's role in EU
- Interference in Elections
EU history by treaties
- Paris Treaty ECSC
- Brussels (military) Treaty
- USA, CIA, European Movement & Churchill
- End of ECSC
- Munich again
- EU trade agreements
  - Canada-EU (CETA)
  - EU-US FTA
How EU Operates
- Corporate Europe - review
- How EU Operates - diagram
- How the eurozone operates
- Collectin DNA, DVLA and PNR
- Wrecking the postal service
- Commission
- Council of Ministers
- EU President x ?
- Qualified Majority Voting
- European Court of Justice
- Lobbying the EU
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- Budget
- Privatising the NHS
- EPA Third World
- Eurpopean Gendarmerie Force
- European Court of Justice
  - Luxmebourg judgement
- Schengen agreement
- Local authorities
- EU Region - NE
- Kinnock on EU fraud
- Taxation
Social Partnership
- Social Europe is a Con - AGM
- Blair - Social Europe?
- European Round Table
- ERT v Trade Unions
- Legalities - Services Directive
- Gag for trade unions
Roots of Democracy
- The Levellers
- Chartists
- Working week
- Taff Railway Strike
Roots of Our Rights
- The right to demonstrate
- Propaganda, persauasion...
- Liberties
National & Class interests
- EU & benign globalisation
- Don't let far-right lead
- The National Question
- Kenya - Independence
- Flags and symbols
- Trashing nation-states
- Flag of St George
- Immigration & exploitation
- 10 Pinciples of democracy
- Right to self-determination
- To be or not to be sovereign
- Flag retrieved
- National Question
- Fascism
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A point of view
- Beyond Reason
- Greed is good
- Press Freedom
- Transparancy
- The National Interest
- Jam tomorrow
- Nobel is not so noble
- TU and Anomie
- Co-operation or Chaos
- Lies and more lies
- Happy - 2012
- People First
- Happiness Index
- Turmoil in our midst
- Inordinate mess
- 2009 what next?
- It could be different
- Back to core values
- Sickening politics
- Double standards
- Regime change
- Man's inhumanity
- Euro 2000 football crazy
- Postoperative trauma
- The real xenophobes
- Even God has to pay VAT
Songs
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- Ukraine - beware the EU
- What they say about 'Europe'
- No nay never to 'Europe'
- Who's Mrs Merkel kidding?
- Banker's Dream
- Cast out eurocracy
- Euros are cheap today
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Did you know?
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Leaflets
- Stop TTIP - Save jobs & NHS
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- How EU operates - who elects or appoints whom?
- How EU operates - who has powers, who decides?
- Who controls the eurozone?
- Eurozone money circuit
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- Day School 26 October
- Royal Mail privatisation
- Mode 4 - free movment of labour
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- Austerity cuts
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Diagrams of How the EU Operates

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European Investment Bank
European Army and EU Military Committee
European Gendarmerie Force
European Stability Mechanism - Institute
European Rail Agency
Court of Auditors
External Action Service

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European Defence Agency
EU Agency for Fundamental Rights
European Bank of Reconstruction and Development