NUCLEAR MADNESS by Try Viney (Croydon CLP-)

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The Labour Co-ordinating Committee (LCC) has called for a rank and file trade union conference this coming November 15th. Taking place at Leeds Trades Hall, it will discuss the possibility of joint action in the coming period between local Labour Parties and Trade ORs Such a conference has a serious potential. Not only could the unions Employment Bill - in order to ram nome ner mades das Equally important, it will give the left in the Labour Party a real base - a class struggle base which to advance their fight against the Labour (mis)leaders.

The creation of a united, campaigning Labour Party based on real support in the unions would be the best possible way to halt the Tories in their tracks.

For further information about the conference contact: LCC, of a war; * it is madness to support the war • on hysteria' of a Thatcher or Carter whose sole aim is to prepare the ground for the 'bully-boy' tactics We saw in Vietnam or Iran.

PLEDGE Despite this groundswell of opinion, however, Labour Defence spokesperson Bill Rodgers - and others NUCLEAR ARMS NO PEACE YES strength".

into Trident.

CAMPAIGN business. on the right - continue to support Tory plans to build up a nuclear arsenal. As David Owen recently explained: "Peace.is won by making a bargain and negotiating with the Soviet Union from a position of madness.

What is important at this year's party conference, therefore, is that it clearly commits itself against nuclear weapons and demands that its leaders - who claim to speak in Only a mass campaign by a united labour movement can prevent the introduction of Cruise missiles - planned for 1983 - and the shocking waste of money to be poured The decision by the Labour Party NEC to support the mass demonstration in London on Oct 26th - called by CND - is a major step in this direction. Support for the demonstration must be carried into Labour and trade union branches in the weeks ahead to show Thatcher we mean October 26th must, however, be the beginning, not the end. It must act as a springboard to rouse ever-wider layers in the labour movement into action against Thatcher's nuclear NO CRUISE MISSILES!

SCRAP MISSILES NOT JOBS!

BRITAIN OUT OF NATO!

y le ratumentary leadership, 1e example on the abolition of th Lords, and completely different policies can be muroduceu lal are not in the interests of the labour movement, for example, a compulwage restrain poncy, conna ence in the labour movement will be undermined.

The Labour Party can only defeat the Conservatives in the next gen eral election if it says what it means and means what Il says

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