ticle Mr Jenkins -not CND - comes to Left'. alleged to be behind thre The people who heinous crime are 'the peoPlebour Party as a broadiy who destroyed based force of progress in other words anyone Eric Heffer leftTrOn wards.
According to Jenkins, the poor middle cass political dupes in the ranks of CND are being shaken down by the nasty Trotskyist DIotters and their Bennite co-thinkers. there is HOTC to Jenkins campaign than meets the eye.
His second complaint is that CND against opposition of EP Thompson, re-affirmed the paigning slogan *Britain out of NATO, NATO out Thompson thought it was necessary to have a slogan which emphasised the dissolution of nuclear DOUT alliances. Let's look at the sober and objective way in which CND's new friend traordinary article by Peter Jenkins entitled 'How the Trots Highjacked the CND. In the arwho supports the SP but the defence of CND against its alleged highjacking by the Broad What Mr Jenkins is really complaining about is that the CND national conference movement, as a crucial part of its strategy Jenkins puts it:
Here he (Thompson) the the without honour Hongary and Polandure apostle confronting the hordes of British TrotFor that they were. Communists are to Eurocommunism football fans Europe.
Having turned out to support the Labour Party But had now arrived Mr their support to CND lost and amenomen Was Britain voted out NATO' the Now any right thinking cam- Guardian eate would feel for poor EP Thompson faced with the baying, Trotskyism. Except of course every single work Jenkins' piece lying nonsense, designed to spli and defuse CND's cam as in , the Let's leave aside who whether or Thompson is an 'apostle of Euro-communism' Any Guardian political columnist 38121 they Trotskyists were the forefront of opposing the The Russian invasion Hungary, and have given much more unequivocal of support Solidarnosc than the Eurocommunists. But let's leave that aside as well, and the implication that Trotskyists, Bennites and of the like have the political level of football hooligans. The political question of should get out of NATO issue, that Britain has been policy of CND from its early days. If the campaigning slogan CND DIS THE PATH TO PEACE DISAR F OH. WHEN THE SAINTS COME MARCHING IN.. ried at this year's conTerence had been put ever three years ago it would laye been carried overwhelmingly. The many supporters of CND may not be so clear on the issue, but according to the of survey carried out CND's 250,000 strong demo last June, 68 per cent of those questioned against Parterpa tion in NATO. Mr Jenkins of course is in favour of Britain remaining NATO.
The campaigning emphasis carried at this years" conference reflects an obvious fact • that Britain is part of NATO and not the Warsaw pact. Unilateralism means getting out of the imperialist nuclear
Sun attacks CND
• SALVATION Peter Jenkins is part of a right wing campaign to nobble CND in the yea when the Cruise missiles are due to arrive. here 1s a division of labour here Tory Party Central Office pouring forth dozens of speeches and arnicies attacking unnatela The Socialist Challenge post November included speeches by Margaret 'hatcher, Norman Tebbit allu Cecil Parkinson on this theme.
The Tory press are har ping on alleged Russian connections SEBE extraordinary fact that Bruce Kent has actually visisted Russia, that TASS conference and so on.
The aim of these at tacks is transparent CND is either consciously or unconsciously playing into the hands of the Russians.
ne ammer by Peter Jenkins and sophisticated and more CND is made up of worthy people, quite rightly alarmed the nuclear threat, who are being led up the garden patt by British Trotskyists. Instead, they should i give up campaigning on leave the labour movement to the right wing and get on worthy and ineffectual.
The beginning. of unilateralism by the Labour Party and the TUC are CND's most valuable assets. CND Hay Haye only about as many individual members as the SDP, but six million The publication of the Guardian's red-baiting attack on CND by Peter Jenkins coincides December issue Marrism Today, theoretical discussion journal of the Communist Party. In it the Guardian's baiter in chief and antiBennite slanderer featured in genteel discussion on complex questions of political recomposition and class
GEOFF HENSBY, dington No 1 branch of the National Union of Railwaymen and of the influential Guards and Shunters Grades Conference is campaigning for nomination in the battle to succeed Sidney Neighell as general secretary of the NUR.
3 challenger to the right wing domination of the union is Jimmy Knapp organiser for the southern region and now an official at the union headquarters. He at pre sent is reported to have gained 200 nomina tions.
office in the union. But gaining office is not an and in itself. The crucial nobilisation and combativity of the ranks in fighting the bosses. Even the victory of a candidate like Knapp with no record of organising he membership against the productivity of fensive of the Rail Board or the wages erosion of railworkers can boost the ranks' confidence.
fice. What recommends him above Knapp is nis concentration on mobilising the ranks ais role in the flexible rostering and other strug. gles of militant rail-workers in the last years nas shown.
some of the issues in his campaigns and exolains why he has joined the race even given the head start of Jimmy Knapp.
WE MUST grasp the opportunity to put the secretary of the PadAnother candidate who presents himself as previously an Socialists are not indifferent to who holds question is Geoff Hensby is a serious candidate for of- as In this interview with Celia Pugh he raises frustrated. This became clearer day by day. because Weighe made contradictory statements.
'One minute he said he complied with the NEC decision for action and the The was giving LICAL statements to the undermining these decisions. This caused confumembers did want to defend HILO DaLLIC wages, conditions and the industry, but Weighell steered a course away from this.
*Healey and his friends argue being LoC radical will frighten off the When candidates prepared to fight on a platform of real socialist policies, people are prepared to back them. I! we had a Labour government that did what it said and carried out radica policie. for peace jobs, then it would get tremendous support. NATO post, maybe there would be grounds for thi argument. But this doesn't apply. I'll be calling for my supporters to make a se cond preference vote for im Even if i don't get elected but breakthrough for the left in the union. All the can didates have a responsibility to come clear on the fundamental ISSUCH haven't heard what Knapp has to say , on these issues
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we reported last week, decided that it had to continue to prioritise support from the labour
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