WHAT DO NATO's General Rogers. Healey. the Financial Times and Michael Foot have in common? Answer: they all understand that Britain cannot get rid of nuclear weapons unless it leaves NATO.
Denis Healey was quite explicit at the Labour Party conference. You are living in a dreamworld, he said, if you imagine that you can be part of a transatlantic alliance with nuclear strategy, get rid of your own nuclear weapons, and tell your partners in the allance to remove their nuclear weapons from your soil The next day the Financial Times reported a *sane and sober contribufrom General HOTE the discussion Bernard Rogers, NATO's top general in Europe, WELL had his statement ready before delegates had even homeward.
NATO, you may recall. has not been asked to NEC.
ICHNICE Rogers "sane and sober argument was that NATO could not commit itself to a no first use policy in other words it had to be By Tessa van Gelderen So writes a Scottish divisional officer of the National Union Railwaymen in the Scottish Miner. And he goes on to say that every miner steel worker and railwayman has a vital interest in the future wellbeing of all three industries. That is the reason for the existence of the Triple Alliance.
The Triple Alliance is between three unions: the NUR, the National Union of Mineworkers and the Iron and Trades Confederation. The "reason for its existence may have ostensibly been to. support and defend workers in all three industries but the situation Denis able to start a nucicar war wanted NATO'S uclear strategy would b 'non-viable' i nuclear i stallations were removed British soil. Concludes the Financial Times (which to lester bee asked register), Labour Party's policy might force Washington to reconsider the viability of whole commitment to NATO. Such a policy is merely vapid and simple-minded; positively dangerous.' No wonder Michael Foot, PUSH conference meanderings, has been more than vague about when Party would actually do the deed and get rid of the bomb. He strangely reluctant to take on the combined extraparliamentary opposition of the Pentagon's NATO generals (whom he has 'EVERY CUT-BACK, every job lost in the steel industry, threatens and causes cut-back and job loss in the mining and railway industries.
in England and to a certain extent Wales is vastly different from that Scotland.
Sirs /STC Sirs came to a deal with British Steel management that redundancies. could occur provided the *big five' steel works were not touched. Now. of course, MacGregor, BSC chairand Healey will decide. decided to break from), the banks (which he has decided to -OTESE and right wing (to whom he has control Labour's NEC).
How can we help poo Michael? Well, first LENC seriously the decision to build a giant demonstration Cruise in 190 and sust to make sure it happens let's ask CND to take the lead Michael Foot: Will he, want ne, ban the bomb?..
Second, we can ensure that year decide to nationalise the and get NATO And finally can mobilise in every corner of the Labour movement to stop Michacl's sordid and clean out Healey's stooges from the NEC next vear This Michael some problems. It may even read as a challenge to his *leadership' But then, there isn't much left to challenge, is there?