CRUSE: the fight goes on!
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-11-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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POEU sell-out on Tebbit - see back page By Sue FAR FROM giving up in despair, anti-nuclear campaigners are gaining in strength and determination with the arrival of the first Cruise missiles in Britain.
Tory leaders who thought they could brush aside and ignore the majority of people opposed to the new weapons have found themselves under attack on all sides, with even the arch-Tory Daily Mail highlighting the mass hostility to Cruise in the aftermath of Reagan's Grenada invasion.
Thousands have shown themselves prepared to risk police harassment and arrest in protests across the country as the US Galaxy aircraft have flown in the lethal components to assemble the missiles.
And in the forefront once again are the women peace campaigners whose two-year camp at Greenham Common has become a focus of the nuclear disarmament struggle.
-The National Greenham Conference held last Saturday, 12th, in Manchester, was attended by women from all parts of the UK who have been active in the mass actions, the blockades and the peace camps.
The December 11 action is being planned as another mass women's action to sing down the walls of Jericho, and it is planned that thousands should be at Greenham to show our anger and determination.
There were few lusions expressed last weekend about the seriousness of the State in its intention to protect the Cruise missiles, as spelled out by Heseltine and Thatcher.
Practical training and direct action is increasingly needed if we are to confront the army as well as the police.
Local actions to coincide with December Il by mixed groups picketing Regimental HQs were suggested as a way to draw more forces in to demonstrate the continued mass opposition to the missiles.
The peace camps set up on November 9 at 102 US bases are another graphic way of drawing attention to the military machine hidden amongst us.
At Burtonwood, 300 of us picketed the gates and some cut the wire in protest at the biggest arms store in Europe.
It was all very low key, with a policeman wishing us to have a nice protest. But nice is not how we feel, and protest is going to have to take place in the labour movement, in the fight for trade union action to cut supplies to the missile bases, as well as outside the bases, to demand that the government abandon Cruise.
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