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· Socialist Challenge No. 169, 23 October 1980 · pp. 11-12 of the scan · 520 words

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CND jointly by Spokesman, sold lens thousands of copies even stalls of WH Smiths Now we nave the book. The editors and Penguin have to be congratulated speed with which this collection been CONCYS lico published.

The book's strengths lie in its countering of the usual media statements: the necessity of nuclear weapons; and that the West lagging behind the 'Soviet menace'. It also supplies accurate factual mațenal wack will be essen: tial for any campaigner against nuclear weapons. Horror It also provides the starting point for a discussion of the attitude socialists should PaKe soviCl aucical arsenal the 'workers' does the USSR allocate such huge resource to nuclear weapons? Why do the Now Weapons, power.

No Nuclear Photography Workshop, they continue to develop even more deadly in 1979 did they nuclear test any other country? What do they hope to charade of the Strategic Arms Limitation lalks? What. use can a workers' atate have for a nuclear bomb?

The first 61 book edition of Thompson's pamCRUMBLING walls and corrugated iron - that's the usual place to find campaigning posters. Peter Kennard's photomontage based stable's famous Haywain has been so effective that it has already graced the pages of the Daily Mirror.

Kennard, photographer Mike Abrahams, and writer Ric Sissons have come together to produce No combining ana text to canal wue reall Several of the montages from the exhibition appear in this week's Socialist Challenge • Weapons can be seen 119 Roman from Tuesday 21 October until Friday 28 November. Openphlet. weapons? Why make more tackles the same themes: that civil defence offers no hope for survival gain from the weapons and is actually aimed position sat this is part or suppressing the continual erosion of civil pages of the nissiles are to be sited her revised democratic decision making;

Wing times are But Wednesdays, on conavailable for hire -01-980 8798 montage, of nuclear clude at the Half Moon Road, London E2 Road, Leeds 3 that In less polemical style he war have been this latter against nuclear uses reality.

trates the last that Hiroshima framework of were Thursdays. and Fridays. noon Local CND groups should note that the exhibition is for details contact the Half Moon on Nuclear Postcards To coincide with the opening of No Nuclear Power the campaign tor Nuclear Disarmament is publisning tou postcards based on Kennard's photomontages. These in the Haywain and 'Nuclear which is shown on page 12. The postcards cost 50p for a set, and are available from Leeds Postcards, 13 Claremont the horrors of nuclear hidden 11101 the people; and that allied to point the media a language that fakes have The second chapter illuspoint vividly.

The bombs which devastated the and Nagasaki After all. called 'Little boy' and 'Fat man'. Weapons belong 1947 6.00pm on Tuesdays (weapons/energy) bob, which ills people and 'families' The neutron leaves property alone, is called a 'radiation enhancement However, the book does omissions: The collection does not really lay much responsibility at the door of Labour it was the Atlee Labour goverment which ir secretly gave the goSocialist Challenge

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