OUR POLICIES C'apitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of the workers but of the capitalist class.
Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks revolutionary socialists are:
• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition class-collaborationism in the These should be non-exclusive grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views.
• To begin to fight for the creation unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application united front lactics, begin lo be seen as an AT creasing David COLTONEY character, The US, and ed.
of one-day conference Callaghan went out of his way to attack the innumber of party members calling for nuclear disarmament by Britain.
Owen, former
secretary, devoted his speech to an all-out attack on those who wanted Britain to get rid of its nuclear arsenal. Owen's speech was couched in cold-war terms; for him, and for the party's right wing, the West has to be armed against Soviet aggression'. But the reality of the world situation is very different from the picture painted by Owen.
The danger of nuclear war stems from the increasingly aggressive posture of the United States.
with the construction of its new 'Rapid Deployment Force', is reorganising its forces to be able to make a rapid strike at any of the world's 'hot spots' where America's interests are threatenThe lead in the frightening escalation of the arms race is being taken by the United States. It is the US, not the Soviet Union, which has deployed James US which is developing the spending untold millions of dollars foreign against the Soviet Union assistant in this nuclear disarmament by Britain.
probably the majorit!, Britain, but to America's interests Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe. It is the bomb and on the MX missile system. And it is the United States which has refused to ratify the Salt 2 agreement for arms reduction and which is generating the war frenzy Margaret Thatcher is Carter's most willing missile-rattling operation. Her government is the most jingoistic and militaristic for decades. But there is an irony in discussion of A huge number of nuclear weapons in Britain, controlled by United States. They are not for the 'defence' of attack the Soviet Union are threatened. The United States controls ten of the RAF's largest airfields. Both the nuclear weapons at these airfields and the Cruise missiles to be sited in Britain will be under direct US control. Britain is becoming one of the chief outposts of American militarism; the US's Union.
getting out of the Us war alliance against nuclear weapons — missiles and NATO as well.
The first steps the a massive turnout for the nuclear demonstration in *The Park for a 3pm rally. 'aircraft carrier' from which to attack the Soviet Working people have no interest in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. To disarm means getting rid of US bases, the Cruise missiles, American bombers, Polaris bases — the lot. And that means - NATO. At Labour's conference Callaghan declared himself but then who isn't? To fight the war danger means to be against the Cruise towards re-establishing massive campaign against imperialist militarism . LaDOll London on 22 June.
Socialist Challenge urges all its readers to get their trade union branches, Labour Party branches or other political organisations to send delegations.
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