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It or Nato we have a Labour Party leadership that is prepared to fudge on issues like Polaris and the bases, and still maintains 100% support for NATO.
Benn has pointed towards this important task: 'the Labour Party has got to shift beyond simply being in favour of giving up a particular weapon... towards non-alignment; a differ¡ent foreign policy which breaks i with the stranglehold of the rest lof Western foreign policy, which is simply a back-up for American ¡global military and economic interests throughout the world"
But what this means has to be clarified. Does it mean getting out of NATO? Does it mean breaking with the military and economic interests of the British state as well as the American?
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In particular, Benn should explain his view of how such a political turn within CND could be accomplished at a time when the leadership is increasingly compromising on even its existing policies of unilateralism. tion about the reason for a 'frisking', nor give his name and police station, if he or she be- more nebulous. lieves that it will not be understood by the person searched.
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Socialist Orgäniser no:153 November 31983 Page 1O