The latest Gallup poll shows that opposition Cruise and Trident is growing at a very rapid rate in this country.
The poll, which commissioned by Photo mon reports that 58 per cent of the population are having Cruise missiles here and 56 per cent of the people are against Trident.
Of the Labour voters interviewed, 77 per cent were against seaness cent opposed Trident. rather puts them out of step with the Labour right wing such as Hattersley Healey, whose interests obviously lie with the ruling rather than Mass voters. both The strongest opposition of all to Cruise and Trident, according to the poll, comes from young people.
was majority of CND, and a strong base in youth, Cente against now in an excellent position to prevent the siting of these dreadful weapons.
But such an must be spearheaded by the labour movement.
per the attempts This right-wing union leaders like Chapple and their counterparts in the Labour Party to and sabotage the campaign and play the Conference decision on Labour unilateralism are so serious.
ple are not only against the interests of a majority of the population but they are tryWith a ing to prevent that majority the population achieving This is why the struggle to movement is remove such leaders is in the interests of democracy and is tied up with a rather important opposition prevention of mass destrucThat is by women for site anti-nuclear down will achieve matters Is The actions of these peowhat is wants.
issue the judge These brave It is in this light that we have must view the jailing of the invading the at Greenham for the majority. Whether or not As we we think their type of action forts to their ends is neither here nor there. What make sure that they have Office IS been jailed by a class-biased protests for speaks minority of the population.
women who accepted Ball rather than give up their opposition to these weapons, do speak redouble our efbuild the nuclear movement we must that the Home innundated with Lobby the Labour Party NEC Labour Party headquarters, Walworth Rd.
Bring Party banners
Called by Labour against the witchunt. demanding that tnese women are released We must make clear that Thatcher and her judges are not allowed to intimidate us in the fight against the war drive of imoerialism Cruise and Trident can be stopped. But to do so will involve mighty class battles. It will mean industrial action against their deployment. It will involve the labour movement of the traitors in its ranks. And it will lead to confrontations the capitalist courts and judges who will use their laws against us.
BU1 the Gallup poll shows that the unilateralists are winning wider support and now that growing movement must be organised in a massive anti-Cruise anti-Trident campaign.
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'Constituencies trade allocated the conference votes which is of individual membership individual affiliations (£3 in that they paid to the party, he says. result of this would be that curately reflect the financal contribution made to the party nationally consulucily parties unions. Because union affiliated members of the Labour Party pay a political levy less than £3. probably increase the Constituency Labour Parties' vote at annual conference to around 20 per cent, instead of the present 9 per cent.
Kitson IN AN important article on Tribune's front page Alex Kitson, deputy general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union calls for a new change to the Labour Party's constituand because many rank and will be file Party members number of bitterly resentful of the influence of trade leaders at the party membership ference, 1982) vote was used to impose the witch-hunt and saddle 'The major the Party with the most right wing National then coulve since me asHe says the reform will ensure that the Sidnev by incident and 'some outside the Party trade and even some within it' to 'weaken the between the considerably unions. this would The idea some influence. the Constituency Parties tink inal the best way to deal the cratic use of the block vote disturbed is to strengthen the unions. Kitson's suggests a compromise so that can be done while own words 'the block vote would continue to be cast WCIC in exactly the same way as balance of votes between con- the constituency where the block and the unions would not be unduly disrupted.
These constituency acEx- tivists who believe their in. should strengthened to deal with the block vote will see such Weighell La change as a small, but used by positive stop forward.
Will the vital bond change help deal with the party and undemocratic block vote? Will it cement will have individual activists? Will it Iviany in it take the left forward?
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