IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 146, 8 May 1980 · p. 5 of the scan · 224 words

The scan: sc-n146-may-08-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 5 of the scan

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spent spect The campaign that needs to be built against the threat of war is not the one being launched by comrades Thompson and Coates. The threat to working people in Britain arises from Bri tain's membership of NATO; it arises from Britain's increasingly strident alliance with the maimperialist militarism the The fight we need is not one of appeals to powers to disarm, but a campaign which unites those in Britain prepared to fight for opposition to the placing of Cruise missiles; British withdrawal from NATO and complete hostility to the military adventurism of the These are the slogans, and not those of uto pian pacifism and neutralism, which need to be raised on the Labour Party demonstration against the Cruise missiles taking place in Lonissued a call to return to work.

Behind the bluster, the truth that the the plant leadership were prepares to face the political problems poser nearly seven months negotiating to avoid such a proAt the end of the road, when Edwardes issued his ultimatum, the convenors conterence suiu tence to call a strike, and left the decision the the rying out its sell-out and was able to derail the struggle at a stroke The sell-out is a defeat. But the

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