The Enemy Is at Home! Stop the Slaughter

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the Socialist Organiser Alliance No.88 JUNE 10 1982 (Claimants and strikers 10p) 25p BRITISH artillery continue to bombard Port Stanley, and the Tories and the British commanders are clearly determined to press on to the biggest bloodbath yet in this squalid war.

At the United Nations even the Tories' closest ally, the US - concerned to save face for Galtieri and avoid further disruption of its relations with Latin America - was half favourable toceasefire proposals.

The UN resolution called for an immediate ceasefire and 'to initiate, simultaneously with the ceasefire, the implementation of' Argentine withdrawal.

But that wasn't good enough for the Tories. They want a bloody and spectacular military victory, at the cost of hundreds of lives of Argentine conscripts and British "economic conscripts' They seem confident of winning - which means establishing a big military base on the islands, perhaps in cooperation with the US.

But the working class will lose out. For British workers, the main enemy in our war - the class war - is the British capitalist class and their state: That enemy will be strengthened.

They will reassert their power to sacrifice hundreds of lives for their prestige and glory.

They will reaffirm their ambitions to hold sway as world-wide exploiters.

Last Sunday there were thousands of antiwar placards on the CND Reagan demonstration.

Even now the protests THEIR VICTORY from the labour move- ment must continue, NOT OURS loud and angry.

Stop the slaughter!

Unconditional withdrawal of the fleet! Black work for the war effort! i I ME a5n And on Sundav 6th. and thousands Tuesday, demonstrated against Ronald Reagan, warchief of the western world.

Most Labour back-bench MPs stayed away from Reagan's visit to Parliament.

But Michael Foot and the Labour front-bench sat through all the official functions. They listened politely as the man behind El Salvador's military butchers held forth about a 'crusade for freedom'.

They extended their common front with the Tories over the South Atlantic war, and reaffirmed their common front with NATO.

Why? And what should the Labour Left do about it?

See page 10, Reagan's war in El Salvador; page 11, camp aigning against the Bomb; page 7, time for the Labour Left to take the offensive again.

Phonsonds borched against the Bomh, Inspinst Reagon, and against the war

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