We are not interested in the argument over whether an Irish boss is better then a European one or an Irish politician more answerable then a European one. After all we want a world without bosses and politicians, not with 'better' ones.
What is different about the Nice treaty is not the terms of the treaty itself but rather in the global movement that has grown in opposition to the western powers neo liberal project. From the time of the J18 protests in London an international movement has grown from Seattle to Prague that is determined to oppose the rule of capital. In Ireland this is known under the rather unfortunate term 'anti-globalisation'. As anarchists we are all for the free global movement of people and the globalisation of struggle so we prefer to say we oppose capitalist 'globalisation'.
The Nice treaty is an important regional part of the process by which an increasingly wealthy and powerful global elite, concentrated in the west but with members in every county on earth seeks to maximise their profits at our expense. In Quebec in April tens of thousands processed at the American leg of this program, the Free Trade Area of the America's. Back at the time the governments of the European Union agreed the Nice treaty (in Nice last December) tens of thousands protested in the streets outside. In both cases the leaders met in secret sessions inside an exclusion zone while outside the riot police attacked demonstrators with tear gas, stun grenades and baton charges. In both cases the media largely ignored what the demonstrators were saying and instead focused on the one had on the 'violence' outside and on the other on the 'rows' inside.
We want to fight for a No vote to the Nice treaty here in Ireland on June 7th as part of this fight against capitalist 'globalisation'. A no vote will temporary derail their agenda as if Ireland votes no the whole treaty is suspended. No doubt, as happened in Denmark at the time of Maastricht, we would get a slightly modified amendment back a few weeks later and told to vote the right way this time. But in the arguments around the vote we will have the chance to explain to many ordinary people exactly what is going on.