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Tony Benn has said that if a and enlist the support of the Labour government is elected, unemployed, women and youth. far from shutting down their there are forces in the Labour Peace Camp in the confidence Party who will fight for their that the government will now do demands to be taken seriously everything - should double and for the repeal of racist laws. Force base. On the same prin- have not already done so to ciple, the approach of an elec- move at once to raise resolution should be the signal for a tions in their organisations, fiercer, not a quieter, fight for affiliating. to SLV; to organise We need to turn not simply to campaign meetings locally, the old, bureaucratised union aimed at building rank and file branch level, and to stewards' campaigning now. struggle in every workplace for a in the fight is to risk the comWe need to turn Labour wards plete collapse of any broad left outwards from their existing alternative to the right wing emment, we need a rank circles of activists to organise file campaign.

then the Greenham women - We need to convince organisations of black workers that their contingent at the US Air We urge those readers who MICHAEL Heseltine may have been brought into the Defence Ministry to counter the arguments of CND but the job seems to be completely beyond him. Support for CND continues to grow.

So he's now decided to resort officials, but to militants Labour Parties to start election support; and to argue for their can't beat 'em, smear 'em. to the age-old tactic - if you committees, it we are to build a To drift becalmed at this point According to Heseltine, CND is a conspiracy by left wingers in Labour vote. the Labour Party and the Communist Party to dupe thousands of honest but naive citizens into before and after the election. accepting the Moscow line on disarmament.

He's even published short biographies of leading CND members for use by Tory candidates in the next election to "prove" his point! CND, with nothing to hide, have already published detailed biographies of their leaders but some of the mud being thrown by the Tories is slowly beginning to stick.

Bruce Kent is now, coming under increasing pressure within the Catholic church to give up his job as leader of CND because the campaign is supposedly becoming "too political" to have a religious leader.

On the contrary, the problem with CND is that it isn't political enough. By posing the question of disarmament as a moral rather hundreds of thousands of people are opposed to Trident, Cruise and the nuclear arsenal being built up by the governments of Ameriça and Britain.

All out on May 7 for the march and festival in Brockwell Park!

YS for YCND (YCND activists in the Labour Party Young YOUTH CND Secretary Annajoy David spoke to Jane Ashworth about the YCND "Rock the Bomb" festival on May 7.

The phones are going all the time and the 1,200 new members who joined YCND in March look like being followed by another 11,200 this month.

The Festival is obviously a big draw and CND's adverts in the national press have been drawing in new people. 30% of the returns from the advert in the Mirror were under 21.

We haven't got any definite plans for after May 7, because this National Committee finishes at our Conference (July 2/3 in Manchester). But we are assuming