BRITAIN OUT OF NATO | IMGpapers 1980

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Seven H-bombs on Britain the or dod to megaton cum Pershing to the limelight.

tries to accelerate ments have vious tensions within it.

of stability and well-being by them as an attack on all'.

Greece Western European suppress the spread of communism.

tor any country resisting attempted ed at 'protecting' parasite' of communism from within.

In post-war Greece, led WITH the decision of NATO countries to allow the USA to plant nuclear weapons, particularly the recently negotiated 600 Cruise and missiles, on Western shores, NATO — the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - is thrown inIn his first visit to Europe last week Edmund Muskie, the new US Secretary of State, managed to persuade NATO countheir arms build up against the Soviet Union. He was successful despite the reluctance European governdisplayed in implementing President Carter's request to boycott trade with Iran and to avoid the Soviet Olympics.

The NATO alliance, refuelled with added nuclear armoury, remains strong despite the obWhat affitude should socialists adopt towards this 'security' alliance!

NATO was set up in 1948 on America's initiative to 'maintain peace, promote conditions 'economic collaboration' and to regard 'an attack on one of NATO's role in the cold war was clear.

backed up by America, would pool their military resources to The cound ori tree ichpledged su pore of 'free peoples' by armed minorities or by outside pressures', was not aimEuropean countries Soviet invasion but suppressing the 'malignant where communists had anti-Nazi resistance the British-backed government could not control the situation. In 1947 British and American troops were sent into Greece to deal with the 'malignant Nor has NATO's role changed today. Its "security' duties have allowed it to place aircraft carriers along the shores of Portugal and Italy when it looked likely that the people of these countries might be 'silly enough' to put Communist Party-led governments in power.

Despite attempts, particularly by West Germany, to allow European countries more say in the deployment of NATO's economic weapons, the United States remains very firmly in control of the alliance. It makes the largest financial conprovides it with its nuclear All supreme commanders of NATO have The Cruise missiles that are about to be placed in Britain this September, which are untested and cost £750,000 each, will which has tried so hard to appear respectable to the European establishment, feels that it is 'provocative' socialists to call for a withdrawal from We say exactly the opposite. There is no La Soviet invasion of Western Europe. NATO's real job is not to 'protect West Europe? but to protect the profits of American and European capitalists and pull Europe into America's war drive against the Soviet Union.

Working people make no profits out of war; they have every interest in opposing the build up of nuclear weapons in Europe. These : weapow casily against workers in Europ who get out of hand as those in the Soviet Union Britain should get out of NATO right now befor Socialist Challenge 22 May 1980 Pare?