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•Ll. •t treaty sal Shek) in ::: ical with imperialB: ise imperialists were still I realed to the existence :SSR and wished to e er military superiorme i= Soviet Union.

=i =s an attempt to ia: he Stalinist leaders Tis whatever to do ¿sizating the Japanese•*= aiready seeking terms Sirender -that the it 100k the decision to :he nuclear bombs on and Nagasaki in $ 1945. teal of approval *emlin bureaucrats - seal of approval to the of the Hiro shima August 6 1945 by ¡i= "allies" in declaring Jean three days later. • is in spite of the fact • LSSR had three weeks been approached to act litor in the moves to a E surrender.

Stalinist press in Britain be USA enthusiastically • both the bombing • declaration of war, that: intelligent people know romic bomb helped to he war and thus saved NATE HHH: /::003001000 de deploying the Bomb Europe-against the Sovie: Union!

Even in the 1950s the Stalinists in Britain, as always Kremlin foreign policy, opposed Trotskyists in the Labour Party the struggle by socialists and as e for a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

In 1957 a Trotskyist-backed resolution calling for unilaterai Norwood CLP for the Labour Party conference in Brighton. It was attacked not only by Gaitskell and the right wing, but also by the former darling of the Yet Bevan's line came after discussions in Moscow with Kremlin leader Kruschev-who explained that he did not want a unilateralist policy adopted in Britain. could counter-balance the USA and be used as bargaining counters, argued Kruschev.

Bevan came back denounce unilateralism as "an to in terms reminiscent of William emotional spasm" , and declareRodgers and David Owen today -that a British Foreign Secretary could not go "naked The British CP obediently took ap this line, accusing the unilatThe CP denounced the establish- MANS OI being : "sectarian" prolinta -li deapors CP General Secretary John Gollan chose his Party's 1959 Conference to wage an explicit attack on the unilateralists, fo for:

"Emphasis on the issue of unilateral disarmament in a way which has tended to slow up the activities of the forces of peace, at a time when utmost unity is the need...

The real issue is what will unite the greatest number of people to get rid of the bomb. We think that every experience has shown that to make an agreement on unilateral renunciation of nuclear weapons a condition of the fight for peace only divides the movement.

It tends to divert attention from the real issue-international agreement" "international agreement" with Stalinis Stalinist parties began a camPresident General Eisenhower. The French CP leader Chorez publicly criticised those stalinist municipal and general ouncillors who had failed to bey a CP Political Bureau istruction to attend a reception I the imperialist war-chief in aris. tily paper In Italy, too, the Stalinist that: wowlarta formallv danistan declared "We Communists of Rome salute Dwight Eisenhower and.

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It was not the Stairss but Newsletter who frs. raised the demand on the ILC io lead industrial action to hal: nuclear weapons.

March 1958 was entitled "Black the H Bomb and the Rocket Bases". It called for action by all unions concerned to stop the construction of bombs and bases.

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And it correctly demanded the Labour Party NEC mount working class action to force an end to the manufacture and pledge itself to halt such tests and construction work the moment Labour was elected to office. wnile it was the Stalinists who ---1.:1 It is significant to note that tailored their policies to every ruuy ur the Kremlin, it has noling of 11.

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of the workers' It is the right and the duty themselves with the most states to arm modern techniques and weapons for defence. bureaucratic caste that holds workers'* political power in the deformed states stands fundamentally opposed to the development or use of the most powerful potential weapon: the masses in the imperialist and semi-colonial countries revolutionary struggle for the in overthrow of capitalism. and deformed workers' states remain isolated enclaves nationalised property relations of inance capital, there will emain an ever-present threat of var-a war more horrible, more revious experience. therefore bound up with the The struggle against n.:. TOMALOL wat IS RONT AI national level for a revolution- fight on a national and intering class that can mobilise the in win te work- aru landa._1 •.Balennhe sis = a with = the variad signatories t E.P. Thom Disarmament (launched Appeal for European Ni April 1980), who seek to er defence in Europe with the Soviet moves for aggressive moves of the imperialists, when they dec that:

"We do not wish to app tion guilt between the politic and military leaders of bor East and West. Guilt li squarely on both parties ... W withdraw all nuclear weapon from European territory ..• Wi Europe already exists. We must or West", but to each other. the learn to be loyal, not to 'East' contrary learn to be loyal not must on the to smooth-talking liberals who approach the issue as simply one to their own independent class interests.

International gain The proletariat, as an intermain struggles against its own bourgeoisie in each country, and fight to defend the nationalised Union as an international gain property relations of the Soviet deformed workers' states must fight in their own defence not by the military/diplomatic methods of their bureaucratic throw of these leaders and the struggle for world revolution.

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