revealed itself in all its barbarism. why. then. Is the anti-war move. ment much smaller than many on the left would have expected?
Despite the encouraging turnout last Sunday should demonstrated in US imperialism's limited intervention 10,000 come out when British imperialism is murdering hundreds?
ine reason is not just tnat une left is chauvinist. The key problem the fact that Galtieri is a military dictator. The confusion will be all the greater if Britain wins military round and resistance can be made to appear the cause of violence.
In reply we have to explain the cause of wars, and place this at the centre of mobilising for 6 June has not Readan comes.
If the islands, London, that 15,000 wars of March bloodshed, do only There will Britain, perialists rom the settle account down their necks. the first Argentinian Withdraw and this is why the mobilisation must go ahead in full whether or Britain wins, and stays on it will neither rid the world of dictators nor make the world sater it will make further intervention, further and tion, much more likely.
be no peace until America, and all have been removed seas. Nor will the America be able their dicnavy breathing the and recognise the Argentinian claim: these are the demands socialists should put forward on 6 June.
But there is a further arena of struggle: inside the Labour Party.
The Tories are acting out of desperation and weakness strength. They have taken a huge military gamble There possibly hang on to what they are now trying take makes support disgusting.
Who will pay the price for their disaster? Labour had sistently fought government would fall the of position became clear.
As it is, Foot threatens to make us pay the price.
Healey, Foot and Shore have shown their colours -of imperialism pure and simple. It is on questions like this that fundamental political aligments are drawn up No who supported this war should be supported for the Labour NEC. Tony Benn was quite right to insist to supported for the NEC on the sole Califi criterion that she has opposed the which war effort. doubly Others the left' have failed the same test; in particular the Militant tendency whose class treachery in refusing concall for the withdrawal of the of motheir episodes in the histor who claim to be Trotskyists.
The Labour delivered tens perhaps hundreds of thousands of on by tamely fooling thatsupporters tion lamely He suite conference there bloc with anyone movement wingers take that Judith Hart should be Malvinas so-called 'far the bleakest Socialist ot those relentlessly leadership have thousands, following with us.
At the labour Party be there Socialist Challenge will make a in the labour including right and pacifists -$ who action against this Pacitism can be no answer to the 'problem there likely to be more bloodshed in the future unless the islands are ceded to Argentina. But the pacifists, unlike some self-professed 'Marx have taken action against the war; all credit to them.
Challenge sup and reader. IUS! take forward the movement against the war. Now we are in a small minority; our allies are few although some central leaders of the Labour left are But when the reckoning in the labour movement must be no let up Thousands of labour suoporter can be won to our side. And Foot and his cronies can be branded for the class traitors they are