TGWU gives green light to boycott missile bases
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-07-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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LANDENUA SERPEL ROUTEN SERPELL I FROM 10, FARES UI SAFETY S REDUCEL STRANGLING MASSIVE REDUND HARRIS DOIN LOTRI rou NHS: sell-offs coul ecimate union strength 'Rail: to be slimmed to the 'profitable' lines? A SHOCK of alarm and fear has shot through millions upon millions of people in the last two years. They have understood that nuclear war is really possible.
Millions now think it probable if not inevitable - and soon rather than something that might happen 'one day'.
Barbarous
Millions have suddenly become aware that humanity -under the barbarous worldwide rule of capitalists and Stalinist bureaucrats - is trapped in a nuclear minefield. That everything and everybody we know and care about, all our concerns in the present, and all our hopes and plans for the future, face irreparable destruction. That humanity itself faces annihilation.
The new Cold War and - in the West - the publicly-discussed plans for limited' nuclear war, together with the development of 'tactical' nuclear weapons are the events which have brought home to millions. the terrible threat under which we live every day of our lives.
Everyone knows that even if the superpowers could manage a 'limited' nuclear war it would not be 'limited' for Europe. That Europe would be reduced to uninhabitable radioactive ruins.
TGWU's Ron Todd The result is a tremendous rebirth of the movement for nuclear disarmament, not only in Britain but in Europe and much of the rest of the world too. The call is growing throughout the world "Disarm the warmongers".
That is the cry in the British labour movement too. Most unions are now for unilateral nuclear disarmament. By John
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