Hearty congratulations to the French for throwing out the European Constitution.

This document is a charter for global business to thieve European people's assets and inflict the vile pay-or-die economics of the US on us, and our continental counsins.

Some will say it is old Europe having one last fling. But, in fact, it's young France and working-class France which has seen through this "charter of the money men".

A whole new generation has declared human freedom superior to financial freedom. Let's endorse their view here.

-Ian Fyvie, Socialist Labour Party, Brighton