THOUSANDS OF women converged on Greenham Common last weekend to 'enclose the base' and 'embrace the world'. The weekend protest included meetings at different gates against imperialism and apartheid and in solidarity with anti-missiles campaigners around the globe.
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before the SUNL weekend demonstration, a poll V0LL0 published, showing that a majority of British people favour leaving the NATO alliance if it does not abanCommenting on the results poll commissioned by chair Paul Johns said it provided Turner that the consensus NATO 'is shattered'.
The rest of the leadership of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament must now take note. The support for Greenham and the sentiments against the North Atlantic nuclear alliance make 1986 a year in which the campaign against the missiles can be massively stepped up.
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Diane's vigorous selecTIOn speech uncommitted delegates. The struggle of black people for representation, she explained, was a class struggle: the mand of the disenfranchis ed for justice She told how her uncle, when he gol a job ln