TRIDENT, the new will cost pounds! That's the latest estimate to emerge House of Commons.
the time, the cost could reach a staggering f10bn. Despite the furore of the Tory backbenchers about defence cuts, the review of defence spending amounts to a real increase in expenditure, even if there are to be nine fewer ships for the navy.
tain's delence eriort. in order to stav in the nucea club, and to make the nuclear 'deterrent' more deadly, British defence spending will be re-organised to concentrate on more sophisticated jets for the airforce, and above all to transfer money to the Trident system.
strategy. Once conventional navy and army forces are being run down, the threshold response has to be made is lowered. In other words, it your only line of defence is the nuclear missile, then you have to use it if you want to go to war.
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THE BOMB which killed Ayatollah Beheshti Party in Teheran was almost certainly a provocation carried out by imperialist or other reactionary forces. No socialist can possibly support such terrorist methods. Socialist Challenge ing. Ten days previously the nearby Bookshop was FASCIST thugs burned down a community printers in Islington early on Monday mornOther attacked leaving Sheila Malone with a fractured skull. Both buildings were on a 'blackspot' list published by the local National Front.
The attackers struck at 2.30am, starting fires in a number of rooms, stealing money and equipment. Extensive was caused to the building which houses the Islington Play Association, the loca People's Rights service as wel the Community Press.
In recent weeks streets had been plastered stickers reading, 'Hitle) was right, Communism Is Jewish' When fascists attacked the Other Bookshop the previous weekend they left a taped message threatening that all other socialists were fair game for similar attacks. It seems clear that they are using the
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