THATCHER'S GLORY:
PRICE? THATCHER'S the-night AVISIT Maivinas-Falklands tempt to restore Tories' flagging political in hoped for June genera In a sordid tion of the soldiers killed, thousands more Argenand visited the scenes of the the vast cemetry at San It speaks for itself that Goose the rest events political life. comfortably 'achievements" million destruction of welfare shackles on the unions.
The economic costs of the war are tinually revised wares They are estimated The armed forces wer recently rewarded with E1bn ships, aircraft and other military hardware. replace that lost in the war. In the defence White the government thief-inthe Falkland Islands tained the costs of time for a CHOMOUS could the E•norTes glorificathe on working people.
the hope to find gains through her Thatcher But victories treasure Hanging Carlos finds her Green and dismissed the claim that her's They fit provocation.
reason she had to COLICI four the and to craft.
In the United con- tions presently port of at f2bn demanding enter into OVEI FICV countries to abstentions.
same com- this week Tatchell speaks out p3 mitted themselves to a claims 'sizeable garrison in the WIll mainfor the foreseeable future'. The this will be Nothing placing underline more of the Tories in the face of the visited cannot Thatcher might still electoral Victory against Argentina Thatcher justification dicted OTEC the perialist isolated in the The Tory press the Argentina's Thatcher's visit to the islands was a Falkland But shows a 23 hour flight with two in-flight refuellings was policy. because nor one singie Latin American country socia and civilian airNa- these November Argentina won the supcountries Britain negotiations Brisovereignty. tain was backed by only should In a meeting of the non aligned movement that to be held in Managua Britain's to the islands be UHOC decisively repudiated.
Labour's front bench criticised Thatcher's visit. Good. But opposition of the Franks about published, is hopeless be to outThatcher Thatcher. It is ridiculous to centre criticism Thatcher acting earlier' stands infor her imdenial Argentinian rights. proposal to Falklands-Malvina: as a military base is fur ther proof of this The plight of the Islanders the criminal character of Britain's Previously, the islanders got education services, food everything else from Ardentina a mere miles away. Now things have come 8,000 miles from Britain. Servicemen outnumber the islanders by These islands are not British This principle be policy. Such a policy is the only way to under.
electoral gains might hope to reap from hel Falklands adventure.
war workers nave no interest in supporting Ene exclusion ot Danish fishermen from Britain's 12 mile limit, the box around the Shetlands, or mackeral fishing off the West coast of Scotland. And neither BRITAIN'S 'sprat' war with Denmark may have all the elements of a farce. but it has provided Thatcher with a heaven sent opportunity to revive the sagging Falkland gung-ho spirit. At least this is the hope of the Fleet St scribblers.
have Danish workers got an acrest in tne victory of Denmark. appeal to le gality is total hypocrisy. In the 'cod' war with Iceland, Britain claimed access right up to the Icelandic coast.
But behind the soar opera antics of super rich conservative Euro-MP, Kent Kirk, Is a acadn serious warning to work ing people. It shows how quickly inter-imperialist economic conflicts can come to war, Its nor onl Britain, but the whole of the Western world that is going through economic recession.
As the aggravation of imperialist competition is threatening a trade war of the kind scen in the 1930's - which saw the recession turned into a prolonged depression.
The over European steel imports into the United States, of US man-made fibres into the BEC, of Japanese cars and • electronics and the US are indicators of a situation which will not ease off. The recent conference of imperialist countries to discuss tariff barriers ended in disorder.
This conference - the General Agreement Tariffs and Trade, GATT was able in the past 20 years to meet and progressively reduce tariff barriers. This time, it end ed with a declaration of war by US agro-business on EEC agriculture.
Such developments have a tendency towards war. War is necessary for capitalism to survive. It is the only way in the last analysis that the various capitalisms can establish a new pecking order - and create the conditions for any new expansion.
Yet, however necessary
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