IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Pat Arrowsmith

Socialist Challenge No. 248, 4 June 1982 · p. 9 of the scan · 481 words

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page 9 of the scan

Britain cannot garrison the in the long run they'l have to be Argentinian. Many United Nations as the pead tut putting forward the in the to my would depend what the UN dic It's most likely to suppor ceaselire but the most realistic tavour should way to achieve it would be if the fleet were withdrawn.

Iam a pacifist, which means that I don't believe in war as a method of solving social conPacifism doesn't mean ment Just means action of a nonI think it's a contradiction less for socialists to applaud killing.

I believe in sabotaging property pacifists in the United State have messed up the nose cones There are methods of non-violent action — such as mass industrial acton which could bring the state women's but in Northern example, that is issue. - don't condemn the IRA bombings in public - I explain that they are a direct response mine.

- in some useful to lands!

But I don't tactics work. I was a child in World War Two.

when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima; 1 _pacifist because of ed conflict when you see how We forget ine Malvinas spisode bears decades ago. this out: suppose it escalates inwar? We don't know that there aren't nuclear aboard the Task I think it's significant that male gods (apart from one lase named after called Helen), but I think they after It's simplistic to assume that women are more Look at Gandhi, Thatcher, Meir, Nazi SS camps were personned by women as Women demonstrators at the Greenham Common Cruise no one well. People who are oppressed can become oppressors.

There's an element of truth from the boys' slogan "take the - men do like toys gadgetry etc, , but that's only on level. I don't think have women's section Malvinas war, but 1 do think the women's movement should work against it.

Also, women have played a major part in the CND movefrom the beginning. think that could be to do with being a woman -women nave Perhaps they are more concern- interest war ca abou children and the future; but that doesn't make it a feminist issue. I don't think all issues worth supporting are feminist issues as such. I would the black, gay and movements to My pacifism has more to do with my family. An uncle of example, former governor of the Falk-

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British. The people who live there do have a choice - either to live under Latin American sovereignty or to move. People are often forced to move - thinks anything of moving people to find work. Prac tically the whole of Corby, the steel workers' town, is populated by Scots who moved down in search of

the nuclear bomb. You have to look for an alternative to arm-

the fight against the bomb bit it's not especially a women's

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