Socialist Challenge 15 April 1982 London Demonstration against British presence in Oman WITH THE ERITSHR TROOPS in NATO and agree to be a nuclear fortress. So much for the idea that the Ilayy is an alternative wenoors prise. If you accept the idea that the British navy should deal with Argentinian junta, necatitiol WUTKCS. lorcea lo use existing ances to back you up.
Our police and banks against all threats — which means both threats capitalist munists and subversives' socialist revolutions. one witnoul une olner. Dy reiying on the navy, the Labour Party cannot avoid compromising counterrevolution.
role, the British state relies on collective scculily HUC CaI empire America.
But this should come as no surAnsencd the instead bitter you are alliarmed forces are a world force for the multinationals other and from 'com• that Is founded You can't have itself In order to play a Great Power But relationship? Left wingers such Tony Benn claim Britain has lost i and become In fact the opposite is true. Tru and rival America's bosses have forced som Spills down bosse throats. But this happens not becaus Britain has no empire but because won tlel go ol ll Speaking 'Question Time Judith Hart claimed that 'the empir was replaced by the Commonwealth This is not true. The empire wa renamed the Commonwealth. It when the Tor government, smarting from its partia defeat in Ireland, convened an 'inter imperialist conference. There it pro posed a scheme first invented by th arch-reactionary Torv Josep Chamberlain in 1905 to defend Britisl marss anaer simulaneous inrer from other imperialist powers an