IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Engineers against the missiles

Socialist Challenge No. 162, 3 September 1980 · p. 9 of the scan · 522 words

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the Ken the spoke in "The Polish missiles.

standing this matter was not 'the the subject!

UCATT, TASS, adopted clear Iney conference itself. none other than the of the commitments Cruise missiles in Britain. 'The ter,' Rogers concludes.

and to a proper defence.

obligations, is on over which way the AUEW's votes will be cast at the alliance Soviet Union. issue of Cruise Nothing Thanks to the line up on the Borders committee at the reverse, the AU's policy-making national committee this year, the zove nucle discussed despite the fact that 1l of the union's 26 divisions had sub- effort, when the USDAW, SOGAT, FTAT ASTMS and were the the Agricultural Workers have then?

anti-missiles This positions, but Duffy and Co preferred the national commit tee to have no policy so that proclaims.

can do what ther wail when it comes to Labour Party And what Sir John Boyd, CBE, the utunbeloved general Malaya, secretary, has already started Angola, preparing. In the July issue of the Journal, Boyd included an article called Ten Points ULE Defence and Disarmament' by thoughts Ri Hon William Rodgers MP, opposition spokesperson on defence.

This article is a full-blooded defence of Britain's NATO including both the last Labour government's we must increase in defence expenditure and the NATO decision to site tion question missiles and their deployment in Britain is not a minor mat'It is at the heart of whether Britain remains committed to NATO ing.

We must fulfil our NATO says because Labour is the government of peace and NATO is the Walca makes peace possible against the aggressive could be further from the truth. The history of the ast 30 vears broves exactiv from the Korean War in 1950 when the Attlee £4,600 (think of what that would be at today's prices) to the US war to the Vietnam War Wilson administra tion backed the Pentagon all the way down the line.

aggressive Soviets doesn't bother Rodgers. After all, 'for 30 years Europe has lived in peace', he Tell that to the people of ireland. Mr Rodgers.

about the wars organised by European powers elsewhere in the world: Korea, Aden, Algeria, and the Sahara amongst others.

Engineering workers have nothing in common with the of this particular member of the Gang of Three, nor for that matter with leaders of the AUEW who get them to write in our lournal The fight is on against their warmongering.

ensure the biggest possible turn out of engineers on the anti-missile demonstraSeptember Blackpool on the eve of the Already North Manchester and Accrington District Committees have given their back.

Engineers are planning to go from the demonstration to lobby their delegation which is Socialist Challenge Tribute He paid tribute to those who had been imprisoned and exiled for fighting for the very right that the Tories were now attacking - the right to picket.

And he recalled the role that the AUEW had played in fighting Heath's attempts to shackle the 'The Godfather" Boyd and Duffy SLOOLe embarrassed to be a member of this union', he said. 'We've got restore our fighting traditions.' 3 September 1980

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