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Socialist Organiser1983 1983-05-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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TO REPLACE the Thatcher government with a Labour government, whose stated policy is to ban Cruise, scrap Trident, expel US nuclear bases and abandon Britain's existing nuclear armaments, is a vital starting point in the fight against the nuclear threat.
It would however only be a starting point: whole sections of the Labour leadership have a long-standing and undisguised commitment to British imperialism and the NATO alliance.
It was the post-war Attlee government which began work on the British atomic bomb; the same Labour government that helped found NATO as an anti-Soviet alliance. In the 1960s Labour Prime Minister Wilson supervised the purchase and deployment of the present-day Polaris submarines, and authorised research on a more advanced warhead, later to become the Chevaline project, on which the Callaghan To break this run of betrayals on the disarmament issue, it is necesary not only to vote and campaign for a Labour victory, but to maintain the fight in the trade unions and the Labour Party for the policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament — and for the removal of Denis Healey and any other Labour leader who pulls back from its Scrap the bosses!
Stop the Bomb!
A Class ynter pamphlet 10p New The Bomb and how to get rid of it - a new pamphlet from Class Fighter. 10p plus postage from Class Fighter, 214, Sickert Court, London N1 2SY. IN Leicester, it won't be a general strike, as women had initially hoped for, but some workplaces are coming out for the whole day, and unions have pledged support for the lunchțime rally.
The Leicestershire and District Trades Council and other union banners (e.g., NALGO, T&G, National Union of Hosiery and KnitOLE PHOTO: JOHN HARRIS