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So says Tony Benn in the latest edition of 'Briefing'.
The main lines of his argument are basically sound: that CND needs to move away from moral revulsion against war, and instead develop "a cutting edge ... more explicitly political in character"
Benn also draws out the importance of opposing all nuclear weapons and bases, and not limiting CND to a campaign around a bilateral nuclear 'freeze' However, on several important issues he does not make it clear where he stands.
On Cruise missiles, for instance, he places the emphasis on the propaganda to be made out of their arrival, and not the pressing need at the moment, which is to organise the most effective and widespread action possible.
This is linked to his attitude to I internal debates within the dis- internal debates within the disLabour CND and Youth CND?
It is important that CND activists do not respond to the arrival of Cruise by attempting to patch together a fake 'unity' based on generalities about not 'splitting the movement' or 'playing into the hands of our enemies' Considerations like that can JOHN HARRIS the last three or four yedars, and the future perspectives for the campaign.
This task is a particularly urgent one in the labour movement, where we have failed to build on paper policies and turn them into action.
It is especially urgent when