'A VISTAS.'That is what will greet CND activists as they gather for November. to one of the showpiece cities of Europe' according to the blurb accompanying delegates' kits. Must be all that real ale.
agenda will be enough to convince the most eager tourist, or even 'the connoisseur of good food' that they will have to give 'the multi purpose centres, like the Top Rank suite' and 'the many types of eating houses ... and historic banquets' a miss! SPECTACULAR CITY OF PANORAMIC annual conference on 'Sheffield has been transformed inBut a quick flick through the conference The Rally and Benefit on Fridav evening will be followed on Saturday with stitution and an afternoon workshops. events will keep us up until 2am. On Sunday all the general policy and action resolutions are be debated.
And here is the first problem. discus sions concerning the acmost important year of its exstence dre cd..c. to slots lasting less than an hour each. Policy will have debate on policy, an hou of which will be taken by the platform, and then we have to discuss eight amendments! Out of this ourcaucrallc Lantic CLIC movement must pull itself together with a policy Io1 the year of Cruise.
There are three proposals for action campaign in 1983. The first 'that non-violent direction (NVDA)
should There are iillc 'NVDA' The 'NV' nda Fawr But, The stop nurses having a 12 per cent rise despite opinion' being on dearer to their hearts. Onthe bittel and massive struggle will stop the missiles And that will mean mobilising al. the resources we have got and more besides!
Ballot The second action proposal, in Resolution 8, calls for 'a national Ballot For Survival'. . You would forgiven for hearing echoes of the World Disarmament Campaign, whose petition was ycal the UN special session on disarmament did not turn out wanted happened to it?
The same thing that will happen to the ballot for survival. Nobody op DUSCH petition And that's the problem. It is precisely the sort of meaningless political action aimed at everybody which will affect nobody.
CNO Something to do for those of that canno camp for three months in East Anglia.
The penultimate resolution on the agenda Resolution 14, is a comprehensive proposal for a paign in 1983, topped off labour movement by the following proposal:
actively fo a TUC/LP industrial and political Day of Action ir 1983, including a national demonstration in London, co-ordinated DOSSIDIC with an International Day or Acuon in olner Curo pean cities. Teeth The seven amendments to inis resolunion bull ll different directions. The strengthens the commitmenu to abou maovemeli action by calling for campalens for national strike Tese proposals mil ces.
proposals out the resolution already passed at Conference, and are of the type needed to meet the challenge movement faces in '83.
But the first amendments, from West Hampstead and Coventry;
a PROTEST AND SURUIN try to take the teeth out of resolution They (amongst other things) propose either the deletion of the action proposals, or the case of Coventry, involvement TUC, political parties etc the demonstration for '83. Fight Both of these amendshould be throwr out. It is vital to use the accomulticul organised labour movement as our battorm. we are not for the greatest possible involvement We are for these organisations being forced to meet their formal CUlll Inuticul These formal commitments the views of hundreds of thousands, even millions Traoe unionists and Labour Party supporters, Olgalisa tions must , take up the fight nuclear arallis. weapons We should be the last in CND, to get the leaders of tnese workers' organisations off the hook. Anything else is just playing around.
OURAGCOUS STAND TU AVC THE BLACK HILL
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