MISSILE MADNESS is sweeping across the West. Britain is no exception.
It is MADNESS to spend f5,200m on Trident, the replacement for Polaris, when school meals, hospitals and social services are all being cut.
It is MADNESS to station Cruise missiles around the countryside, turining Britain into a prime nulear target in the event of war.
In is MADNESS to support the war hysteria whipped up by Carter, who simply wants to win world opinion behind new American imperialist adventures like that in Vietnam.
It is MADNESS to suggest that nuclear war might somehow be in the interests of working people in this country. In a nuclear war we would all be losers - only the politicians, generals and capitalists would be safe in their specially built bunkers.
We have no interest in encouraging the arrival of doomsday. Quite the reverse. But the only way to stop it is to call a halt to Thatcher's war drive.
The first step is a massive campaign to stop the arrival of Cruise missiles - planned for 1983 - and to stop the spending on Trident.
But stopping the missiles in the face of Thatcher's war hysteria needs the united strength of the entire labour movement. It definitely doesn't need 'leaders' like Shirley Williams, William Rodgers and David Owen who back arms drive.
And that also applies to their supporters in the trade union movement like Duffy and Boyd, leaders of the Engineering Union.
That's why anti-missile campaigners in the North-west have called a demonstration to the Labour Party conference on Sunday 28 September. Backed by Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Bob Wright, Labour Action for Peace, national CND and many other individuals and labour movement organisations.
The march can really put pressure on the Labour Party to come out against the missiles, which in turn would be a big step towards a movement that can really stop Cruise.
Labour must support a labour movement campaign against the missiles; it must support trade union action to boycott work on missile sites; and the next Labour government must be committed to cancelling the missiles contracts.
Come to Blackpool. Lobby the NEC. Lobby the AUEW delegation.
LABOUR MARGH AGAINST Sunday 28th Septer Assemble 10-45 (nr. Butlins H CONFERENCE MISSILES ber am. War Memorial Blackpool