PRESIDENT REAGAN HAS Rostow to review Cruise missile sites in tain. He has already been to Holland and West Germany. Reagan and Thatcher are in a hurry.
the anti-missiles movement in West Europe regardless of the fact that the damn missiles keep flying into 'friendly' mountains in their Canadian tests. the struggle to get Cruise and Pershing into their bases GOSTaCES. manouvers will be required in the countries concerned.
Proportional represenTATION ERSSHOWAIE undoubted benefits for ruling class in West Germany where Kohl's right wing coalition now pushes паск Inc prossurc Cuat was building on the SPD trom spilling over into a govern ment crisis. A big part of that pressure the movement against the Postpone Elections in Germany have now been postponcd and Britain labour opposi- March In Holland tions are TOW committed to opposition to the siting of US missiles in their territories. If they were to come into government they would pose major crisis for NATO Britoin is the pivot. Both Holland and Western Ger many have previously said sent Eugene BriRegardless of the spectacular build-up of 1983 remains target year. But faces formidable big political they will not take missiles Britain withdraws.
Meanwhile huge mass movements have assembled in all three countries (as well as Belgium, Spain and nOW The first stage of the campaign is now over. The growth of a paralleled since the end of the Sccond has happened. In Britain ENE1 INOVCMICIL DES WOL the potentially unstoppable powe. of the organised ROOTT TEOVRment. These forces been WOH through the mass actions, leading to a demonstrations WCEN last June which mobilised Ewo million West and a million in BUTONC New York. What her od ed ke force Thatcher to make a TECYCTOT Issucs ke wages, we get some idea of the giant tasks involved in pulling the plug on the cenirepiece NATO's Panic The Economist (9-15 October) commented on recent ConTerenCe decision unilateralist by saying Don't yet panic quite Ines WETL-OR SEADOUR cunning constitution allows the shadow cabinet that , to select what items in "programme' to pur TLTG the party s me Ecoo. That Des iot Economist does ir goes on to point out The conferenee also voted by one not to leave NATO, but that is little comfort. A Britain which turned back on nuclear weapons would -unlike Denmark or Norway make a horrid hole in NATO's defences.
If these are the stakcs then a few (incvitable) punch-ups wilh me ponc hardly tickle the margins of the problem. The full strength of the labour movement must be mobilised if the issuc is to be tackled. Unilateralism pre-eminently a class against class issue. But wnat ask many CND activists 'does this mean?
an inkling of an answer to this when we read furthe down the same Economist article. After showing the WHICICUV Healey Foot could fudge Labour's policy in the awful event they got into it writes of a second fudge, modelled on its experie 1983 election the 1983-4 election brought in only a minority Labour Government, the Liberal-Social Democratic alliance would not allow it to go unilateralist .." Heart At the heart of the ciass atsnsss Dames Lodal is the issue of government On the one side the struggle to get rid of the Tories and remove the threat of the SDP On the other side is the fight to win a Labour Government which can be pressured apply positive aspects of its own official policy.
Mass action and strug gle around any progressive demand, be it in defence of the health service - ог unilateralism rapidly leads to the unavoidable conclusion that a solution can b found only at the level of government.
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Tony Ben 6 AlanFree The a Tories will not make LUTH umateralm A bloc SDP and Liberals would UPCCOCAOSEUD unilateralism. Ever outright Labour victory only set the stage for the bitterest battle to torce inat government to apply what would be its biggest vote winner! The OTESETT icaaersmip or me Labour Party have already made that clear The fight