South Road Primary School, Southall 'STOP Cruise, Stop Trident, Jobs not Bombs!' That was the chant taken up by 1,500 CND marchers in Edinburgh Saturday morning.
Organised by CND at four days' notice, the was nart ota weekend of disarmament activities. it was follow ed by a 2,000-strong rally called the Scottish Local CND activists wanted to start the new year with action on the streets, and distributed thousands of leaflets in support of the JULIAN explains politics of neutralism in the 60's put it outside the anti-Vietnam war move ment and how the Labour left failed an and socialist policy of the The and more widespread interpretaand of neutralism between and effectively Positive neutralism as a balanced equiliorium was supporicu v. the Young Fabians, who saw the Labour Partv a. uniquely fitted to carry out such a policy due to the diversity of opinion in the party.
'For a foreign policy of neutrality... the existence or such alverse tendencies within political framework, being liability becomes a positive asset. Pressure from both right and left on a neutralist Labour foreign secretary would in fact help him, not hinder him. of itself less neutralist than CND Was to show national labour movement conference against the missiles.
The final event of the weekend was local ed by over a hundred people. A major feature of the discussion was how to build working class support for CND'S aims.
approving disapproving of soliVietnam formally the confusion up Dick and Walter of USDAW their ment and for Britain to remain NATO TGWU secretary, wavered and played with the idea of reiorm ing NATO from within.
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he March '61 CND con ference, Michael Foot backed the 'compromise. The became a rout.
The USDAW conference narrowly rejected unilateralism favour of the 'compromise', which was later dropped thus allowing the ÜSDAW leadership to nave Gaitein The Engineering Union voted Gaitskell
Priorities decided
upon were building the Scottish demonstration in June, the campaign for 'Jobs not and intervening 21 February unemployGlasgow.
The conference gave full support to Lothian narrowly uniof delegates mandate WCIC unilateralist.
After USDAW of the Although Crossman.
line marked SLCO position the how he mooc unity in howfor the lack It the the 'barFour' 1961 ateransm Labour showing had to stab capitalist party while the end is a muddled Worke clas:
one. The Labour left was determined to respect the continuing campaign against implementing civil 'defence measures.
A young CND group was also set up.
• In London at the weekend a conference of London region CND heard proposals for local CND groups to support the Liverpool to London unemployment march with "Jobs not Bombs' cultuscus boundary limits of what the right was prepared to a The front end of the horse was not prepared unilateralism The back end, rather than risk a split, reluctantly pulled into line. CND neither foresaw nor guarded against this.
Instead of a policy of.
leaving the Labour Party struggle to the Labour lefts the campaign should have made a clear turn to the labour movement, without shifting from its mass campaigning orientation.
CND did not produce literature to reach the union and Labour Party rank and file, nor contact the branches. It used mainly moral arguments rather than spell out the ponucal issues mvolver and the economic consequences It refused to raise the issue of industrial action.
t did not tight its impor tant labour movement friends when they equivocatec over NATO. The new CND is faced with the old Michael Foot. Let us not repeat history.
"The Protest Makers' Richard Taylor and Colin Pritchard, published by Pergamon Press at £10.
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Labour Party and the bomb In the concluding part of his review