IT'S encouraging to read that brian Hero has now way, December 1980 of probabie attempts to substitute the World Disarmament programme for CND's lemands for unilateralism (23 April), Yet it still seems to me (unintentionally, I'm sure) the Campaign's 'only policy plank - generar ano complete disarmament of the whole world, conventional weapons as well as nuclear weapons He fails to eive a short direct quotation from the final document of the UN special session on disarmament of 1978.
Line ontish tive joined 148 other national representatives committing their government help 'mobilise world public opinion for meaningful and for disarmament by agreed stages.
Do Brian Heron and comrades seriously imagine that they are in a position persuade greater number of people to oppose Cruise missiles than the number that W.DC aims to reach by its political and military consciousness-raising in UN associations, local peace callyaltis and Illalsy church congregations throughout the world?
In Japan, for example, Don't cut off dole money IF civil servants are to defeat the Tortes they must mobilise the active support of the rest of the working class, employed and unemployed.
in the civil service unions should therefore advance a line which unites the whole working class in a struggle for a general strike to kick out the Tories.
Socialist Challenge has argued for strike action in the dispute, cluding by those running the computers which pay out unemployment supplementary DOUCHE This would cut across such Hilty.
The non-payment OT benefit would cut across such unity.
Hon over benetit would create PIEC group of desperate virtually penniless unempeople and their 25 million trade unionists have apparently signed the WDC petition.
Of course, it is wrong to approach all conflicts with a simplistic bleating for peace, and the machine guns and hand grenades of Third World Liberation fighters likely to be the final items on any disarmament list.
But Heron seems unaware that the West may well be planning to initiate a pre-pre-emptive 'limited' nuclear war on the USSR. In this nightmare Heron considers blind alle y' to mobilise a demand for disarmament by hundreds of millions so nsistently that no ma по withstand it' To mobilise public opinion against internationai nuclear and conventional DICTION ATTORE ORDAI 'worse than useless strategy'.
It is aimed at neutralising that fatalism which is part of the poison of Tory hawkishness', and at creating an alternative ideology which will be essential to achieve the first stages of unilateralist strategy by Britain (and, we hope, by other counprocess of unilateralist emulation) -unilateral nuclear disarmament and unilateral abandonment of NATO and the EEC.
Oxford dependents who would be dangerously anti-strike and to some extent anti-union da. They would hardly be likely to join in solidarity actions.
There are already divi-