[The 100,000-strong CND demonstration last Sunday represents the…]
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The 100,000-strong CND demonstration last Sunday represents the clearest evidence yet of a growing mass movement in Britain against the war drives of British and US imperialism.
The increasingly strident cold war tones coming from the Tory government together with Thatcher's decision to buy four Trident submarines and provide bases for US Cruise missiles brought thousands of trade unionists, Labour Party members and youth on to the streets of London in the largest Published by Folrose Ltd for the Registered as a newspaper at thi anti-nuclear demonstration since the 1960s. (Last year's demonstration attracted only 600).
But there was no political leadership offered to the thousands of marchers from the platform speakers.
'Credible policy'
Tony Benn announced that he was not willing to tell the young people of this country that their future was a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union. However, he went on to argue that British capitalism needed a credible defence policy but it did not have to be a orkers Socialist League, BM Box! ist Office. Signed articles do not / to defend jobs, services and living standards to bring down the Thatcher government can the horrors of a nuclear holocaust be avoided.
There is no solution to be found in a "broad-based" cross-class pacifist protest movement.
The trade union movement must take up the fight to black all work on the installation of Cruise missiles as part of the struggle to halt the Tories' war *Defend the Soviet Union.
*Stop Thatcher to stop Cruise.
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