THIS weekend thousands British Army reservists move to West Germany to take up stations alongside 90,000 other troops of North Atlantic Organisation. A war with 'the enemy' is due to start on 24 September.
In the following week hundreds of secret bunkers in Briwill «hTted military control, and in and NE England some of their regional headquarters will be attacked by "the enemy' and repelled by the army.
Unrest It's all part of one of our rulers' war games Crusader '80, and the efforts in Britain are designed to counter the unrest which will be assumed to spring up in war-time Brilain, 1 nese counter-insurgency manoeuvres, exposed in News this month, are THE Campaign for Nuclear national demonstration on Sunday October has now been fixed to begin at llam Speakers Corrally 1 in Trafalgar Square. demonstration inding No Trident, Cruise Cut Spending. A national leaflet has been produced by CND.
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Crusader '80 started on 31 August with hundreds of tanks rumbing down to southamnton. The carefully prepared public relations side of the exercise somewhat misfired with the revelation that 36 lorries carrying vital technical equipment left on the dockside because there was no room on the ferry:
Military authorities will be hoping that Operation Square Leg goes more smoothly — and of will Exposure of these exercises is a further blow to the myth that 'Home Defence' planning the intended to Treaty civilian population. Its history reveals its true purpose.
Scotland East MARCHERS against in Scotland will be participating in their own demonstration im will be held in Saturday 25 October.
The present called originated in 1919 when Britain was divided into Iz regions. each with a commissioner who had the powers to deal with insurrections or general strikes. the Second Peace War the system was adapted for civil defence and to meet inyasion. In the 1950s the whole structure was bunkers.
Today headquarters are controlled by chief from local goverment who are responsible to a regional junta police military commander another chief executive. In turn the latter would serve under a cabinet minister appointed as a commissioner No Arms protect the The demonstration against the siting of 96 Cruise missiles to be stationed at Greenham Common assembles at Victoria Park Newbury at noon on Sunday 21 September. rally overlooking missiles speakers will include Susannah York and Joan Lestor MP.
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Coaches leave from Oxford the Martyr's London A British tank on manoeuvres, and (top) communications room in a regional seat of government will be leaving from Crouch End, St. Pancras, and Shepherds Bush and should be booked in advance. Tel: 01-242 manoeuvres For 01-485 4609 cible establishment makes forces. the reasonable assumption that But would be • populanon l Leg. against the warus! All It is for this reason that the population of East Anglia or Tyneside may be treated to the spectacle of the army carrying out its counter-insurgency tactics in defence of the bunkers.
Over the next few weeks we will hear a great deal about the the Warsaw Pact countries on the borders of Poland. We will be treated to news stories showing the invinmight of the NATO WCI won't hea very much about Operation Square This is a war game against the counterinsurgency plans aimed against that the working class should be exposed as part of the campaign to deprive the NATO war lords of their doomsday weaponry.
the the cuts 'LET the women talk for a change,' says Doreen Henshaw, who set up the Women's Movement for Peace in Manchester other women, housewives and workers. were as angry as herself about the US war drive and the siting of Cruise missiles in Britain.
The response has been good, with 100 at their last rally in Manchester The women's starting point was the US air base at Warrington. 'It's like the spot on the boil — it festers and spreads.' The base is one of the big gest in Northern England. Per. sonnel has doubled and all arms kept at the base are ready for immediate use.
The movement wrote a letter to the base informing them would be coming discuss their presence in Britain and the US war drive.
The women particularly aimed to talk to the wome who work at the airbase.
authorities at the bas refused to see them.
Although they thcis campaign apolitical, all the women hold strong convictions and take an active interest in in ternational politics.
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want to be the American umbrella.' Doreen was particularty disgusted by the US "rescue' at. tempt in Iran, and all are aware of the link between capitalist recession and war.
'Look at the money behind arms in the war drive... It's our governments that are feeding us propaganda fear America more than Russia.' The Women's Movement for Peace has • wallen to loca newspaper, and it has featured in the Yorkshire Post and the Observer. People have already started to write to them from abroad.
They write to Thatcher every week and are organising a deputation to go and see her.
In a discussion on local radio, Doreen demanded that Civil Defence plans Manchester be made publicly known.
Council officials were forced to reveal that there are no Civil Defence plans in Manchester because of the spending except, no doubt, for the civil dignitaries who can use the secretly-built shelters under the Piccadilly gardens in the centre of town.
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