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Socialist Challenge 3 July 1980 Page 2 demonstration arms was swift.
nor the event the given ever its political basis.
are over the built by of disarmament., me bausa rullne class In Impellalsill s NATE 1 natcher in wasnington. the whole system War WO The utmost ferocity.
Soviet government is preparing for Pave of anti-imperialist from Iran •THE reaction by the right wing of the Labour Party to the 22 June against nuclear A week before William Rodgers, Shadow Minister of Defence, was massive coverage in the Fleet Street press for his denunciations of the demonstration and Rodgers was taking a leaf from the book of Hugh Gaitskill, who centred his offensive against the Labour left in the late fifties and early sixties around the question The importance attached by the rightwing to the issue reflects its importance to , For Britain to re nounce the stationing of Cruise missiles on its soil would create a massive crisis within chief military alliance, Unilateral disarmament would provoke a head-on collision with the allies ot Woe BOSC of military alliances established by imperialism since World For that reason the British ruling class, and their backers in the right wing of the will resist any campaign against nuclear re-armament with At no time has this been more true that The USA is not about to go to war Union. But Carter's.
rvention to attempt to hold back the struggles which ate sween une oa dasuons or succal power in the semi-colonial countries to South Korea from South Africa to the Caribbean. from Brazil tc But the US government can't afford anotner it is to get away with new military adven•tures against the colonial revolution The placing of Cruise missiles in West Europe takes place in the context of im veranst re-armarriet , The aim is to whip the US ruling class's European allies into line behind the war-drive.
against movement stationing of Cruise missiles in therefore runs slap bang up against the US and the British government's war-CIlVC part in it. This is recognised by the British ruling class and by the right Rodgers Healey Unfortunately the left has shown no such clearsightedness.
Convince American workers of the 'Soviet threat' if thing about the Labour Party speakers al the 22 June demonstration timidity. calling for 'no As for wrapullly. speakers, you would have thought NATO did not exist the Mary Caldor, speaking as a member of Purone the 'Campaign for a Nuclear-free Europe withdrawal from NATO to the break-up of the Warsaw Pact. wing of the Any campaign:
nuclear disarmament to that of the war.
of the inevitable The most striking Soviet Union' dists.
workers united mass action.
the demands weapons questions the locally united front bodies begin bocles run away increase' in nuclear tion in the autumn.
other take Lalli tied Delore fis too taic Building . whịch ties saw Pact will itself be disarmed in the face ruling • class counter'ottensive which wil centre on our com mitments to our NATO allies against the The onlv response to this type of argu ment is the demand for unilateral disarmament and withdrawal from • NATO. The governmen must disarm without any preconditions. This demand is necessary if we are not to fall into the traps set by the ruling class's propaganToday there are tens of thousands of and youth preDated t against Cruise missiles We don't deman of these activists that they agree with before they march. But equally it would be the CND, HN. or Labour left to make their own slogans for 'neutrality' in Europe a precondition tol What is necessary today is the broadest possible campaign of mass action around ruse Wussues.
Replacement for Polaris, 'Scrap nuclear So whatever differences exist on other campaign TO STOD Cruise missiles must be organised nationally and movement based on oper We urge Socialist Challenge readers to establishing such campaigning . Nationally the momen tum of the 15,000-strong turn out on the 22 June demonstration must be built upon by setting a date tor turther national ac Revolutionary socialists will fight t LiHi of mass action camnaign into the labour move ment and within it argue the case for Briwithdraw from NATO now such moverent is the best contribution that socialists tnis country can make to stopping the l perialist- war drive on a world' scale.