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What does this mean? It means that if a olution overthrows an important US ally en, on the assumption that this is an aspect of wiet aggression', US troops will rush in to deid democracy and freedom' with napalm and is, as they did in Vietnam.
reclear rearmament fits into ework: If decisive nuclear superiority over USSR can be attained, especially a e capacity' and the possibility of limited car war', then the American ruling class can ectively deter the USSR from aiding or suping such revolutions.
In the great revolutionary struggles of China, gaslavia, Vietnam and Cuba, and in the fight nst racism in southern Africa, huge inspirahas been taken from the ideas of the Oc1 1917 Russian revolution and the existence ¿workers' state outside of the control of imalism. Simply the fact that the USSR today ruled by a conservative, geriatric, bureaucracy ich, to maintain its power, crushes socialist emocracy in Eastern Europe and intervenes in e most bureaucratic way possible against the dord rebellion in Afghanistan, does not te the USSR the same as the USA. It does make it 'equally responsible' for the threat war and nuclear annihilation.
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To claim that 'guilt lies squarely upon both parties,', as does the European Nuclear Disarnament Campaign (END) and other neutralist or pacifist groups, can only help the rulers of the United States and Britain. They seize every opportunity to employ the genuine disgust at the Soviet bureaucracy's suppression of democracy for their own ends — to gain support for new wars against colonial peoples and to add further twists to the spiral of nuclear rearmament. Just as workers will support even a hopelessly bureaucratised trade union against the bosses, because it nonetheless remains a union, so too the USSR remains a workers' state despite its bureaucratic leaders. If it was crushed by imperialism, the working class of the entire world would suffer gravest tury. The war drive is an imperialist war drive?. Understanding that fact is key to countering: it.
this How to Stop the War Drive first 'WE propose to make in Europe a theatre of peace. This will not, even if we succeed, remove the danger of confrontation in non-European theatres. It offers at least the small hope of European survival.' That is how EP Thompson summed up the approach of the European Nuclear Disarmament campaign. Its strategy assumption that 'power blocs', East and West, have been taken over by the logic of the nuclear arms race. The aim is a neutralist Europe as the first step to dissolving the altogether.
But as Thompson himself points out: "This will not remove the danger of confrontation in non-European theatres.' In fact, such confrontations are taking place every day, although not at nuclear level. For example, as we write, in El Scotland Marchers against the Scotland will be participating in their Corner The own demonstration in October. demonstration will be held in Glasgon on Saturday 25 October.
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the new world crisis bites defeat this cenof wars and revolutions, with Cruise missiles!
is based on the be divisive' to 'ground blocs' elsewhere, Salvador it is a US-backed dictatorship, financ- worldwide. ed by American corporations, that is gunning down 30 people a day with American rifles and helicopter gunships. America fears losing yet another area of the world from the grip of its Nor can the European theatre be lifted out of this world political and economic context. As deeper into the economies of the West the imperialist powers become ever more unremittingly hostile to that third of the world that has already escaped from their economic and political control. It is this permanent hostility that drives a rift through Europe — the arms race is generated by the imperialist powers as a result of this. Europe cannot be turned into an island of peace in a world and the Western governments know it! That's why there will be 460 Cruise missiles aimed at the USSR Wishful thinking about a 'neutral Europe' will not be effective in countering this real escalation in the 'arms race'. Such an approach falls into the lap of Thatcher and Schmidt because their argument is precisely that they need Cruise in order to persuade the Soviets to disarm. By accepting the logic of 'mutual disarmament' - multi-lateralism - END is unable to counter Thatcher's argument that to achieve this a strong negotiating position is necessary for the West - a negotiating position backed up For EP Thompson it is 'unrealistic and could our actions ona preference for one or the other blocs'. Because: 'So long as each bloc's resistance movement can be categorised as the ally of the other, exterminism will be able to police its own territory...' In other words, any stand other than pacifist neutralism — arguing for Europe to drop out of missiles must demand unconditional, that is unilateral, nuclear disarmament. This is all the more vital given the nature of the campaign which is used to justify rearmament. Thatcher and Carter are out to convince workers in the West that the economic crisis is not a crisis of capitalism but the product of Soviet 'exper sionism' - in the form of revolutions - while threatens 'our most vital interests': oil in the Middle East, raw materials and investments and 'democracy and freedom' So their recipe for prosperity is economic sacrifices by the workers at home combined with a show of military force overseas.
In the West today trade unionists cannot even take strike action without being labelled 'reds' The frenzy of witch-hunting that will greet any serious anti-war movement will be a thousand times more venomous. But, as in any strike, the answer to the red scare is to prove the justice of our actions, not to bend over backwards to accommodate the Fleet Street press..
If the ruling class succeeds in dividing and defeating the Western working class and in crushing the colonial revolution, then the threat of a Third World War would become a real one as they moved on to try to restore capitalism in the rest of the world. The interests of British workers in this situation are not served by neutralism or non-alignment, but rather by militant opposition to austerity at home and solidariwith every -struggle against imperialism overseas. The history of our own century should tell us that as long as imperialism exists it will use all means, including war, to defend its profits and bank balances. The war threat will exist until the warmongers are disarmed by their own working class — MX, Cruise and Trident are ineffective in a civil war.
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