SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Geneva summit US 1 : Gorbachev 0

Socialist Action No. 123, 29 November 1985 · p. 12 of the scan · 399 words

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page 12 of the scan

THE ISSUE at Geneva was the United States Star outcome is that it goes ahead.

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That goal is forcing the Soviet Union to keep stepping up armaments expenditure to keep up with the AmerICAN collie Star Wars. This places the Soviet economy. And this is the vice that Gorbachev has got himself caught in.

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