I've been browsing through your paper and liking quite a lot of the articles. However, on reading 'What We Stand For', I was appalled to find that you do not take an unequivocal stand against nuclear weapons!
As an old stager may I appeal to you all to consider the proposition that our socialist aspirations and our interim demands may be valid beyond question. Yet what is virtually certain is that a world nurturing a build-up of nuclear weapons will sooner or later burst asunder. There will almost inevitably be an unimaginable holocaust unless there is an early change of direction: our aspirations will then be of no account. Our demands will appear retrospectively futile and irrelevant, if we can still think before expiry. 1am not suggesting for one moment that we should not have aspirations; nor that we should not make demands and strive to maintain jobs, hospitals, public transport and so on. But in heaven's name let us not forget that we have to survive (not least of all our children to make possible the achievement of a viable socialist system. Let us put right our priorities before it is too late! May I therefore hope that you will include in your demands: 'Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament as a move towards global sanity, survival, and socialism'?
Fraternal grettings Frank Viney Bromley, Kent Dear Cde, In last month's Socialist Action, you devoted a major article to the May 14th rally. Like many other papers on the left, you conclude that this was the "biggest protest yet' against the Tories.
That is true, but I think the left really must learn to look facts in the eye. The turn-out on May 14th while significant, was lower than almost everyone predicted. It's no use trying to blow the situation up and, at the same time, blaming the trade union leaders for it not being bigger.
If the rank-and-file had really felt the need to tackle the Tories, they would have turned out despite their leaders, as the steelworkers did. The truth of the matter is that, while there is an active minority in the unions ity are still apathetic and have government's policies.
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Sandra Hill London Dear Socialist Action proposals set out to do is to Caliol.
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Andy Sharpe Watford willing to fight, the vast majornot yet felt the pinch from the It's no use pretending otherwise The new nationality proposals are an insidious attack on black people in this country. What the create a form of second-class citizenship, which means that the government will be able to take away basic rights from black people like, for example, the vote. They also pave the way for the possible introduction of a "pass law' state, by requiring 'overseas citizens' to carry their passports or some other form of identifishould take up this issue whenever they get an opportunity, be it in their union branch, Labour Party ward, YS or anti-racist
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