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No to TTIP is a call to arms
against a deal between the EU
and the United States which
seeks to impose huge financial
penalties for any policy not
deemed to be in the interests
of transnational corporations.
The Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership
includes a provision called the
‘investor-state dispute
settlement’ which allows
private companies to sue
nation states if they feel a law
had lost them money on their
investment.
TTIP will enable
corporations to launch endless
legal battles, potentially for
billions of pounds, in the
name of future lost profits, a
kind of corporate feudalism.
Bob and Tony would no
doubt have been campaigning
very hard and loudly against
this affront to national
sovereignty, independence and
democracy as well as to this
country’s membership of the
EU: all the things in fact that
they dedicated their lives to.
Today the EU is a very real
threat to our NHS and other
public services that are just
seen as cash cows for
monopoly capital. That other
weapon used so effectively
against workers, mass
unemployment, is on the rise
which takes away the most
fundamental right of all, the
right work.
EU court rulings and
diktats are constantly
removing workers’ rights to
collective bargaining and any
meaningful tools to defend
themselves. As Bob and Tony
remind us, the EU was built to
defend the system it promotes,
capitalism, not the interests of
workers.
TUAEU salutes their
memory with this collection of
songs which, each in their
own way, celebrate the lives of
two giants of the labour and
trade union movement.
PRICES:
£10 plus £2 p&p available
from our website: tuaeu.co.uk
Or cheques to TUAEU PO Box
71625 London E17 0RJ
Trade Unionists
Against the European
Union proudly presents...
No to TTIP - a 12-song CD
celebrating the lives of Bob Crow and
Tony Benn. As you might expect it is also a
call to arms against the proposed Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership between the EU
and the United States which is designed to abolish national
democracy in the interests of corporate profit.
TONY BENN, ROY BAILEY, DAVE SWARBRICK, CALLUM BAIRD, BRIAN DENNY
CRAFTING FOR FOES, RED WEDDING, PHIL BURDETT, MILK BOYS, BANNER THEATRE
MICK DENNY, FRAN FOOTE & ADAM REES, POL MAC ADAIM
This is only available in CD format. All proceeds go to TUAEU.
This limited edition CD features contributions from...
Trade Unionists Against the EU
To buy your copy visit
www.tuaeu.co.uk
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European
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a 12-song CD
the lives of Bob Crow and
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Or by post at Trade
Unionists Against
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PO Box 71625
+£2 p+p
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NO TO TTIP!
Trade Unionists Against the European
Union proudly presents No to TTIP: a
12-song CD celebrating the lives of
Bob Crow and Tony Benn.