STOP THE MISSILES stopping the missiles.
the Colference last year it was accepted that the only force ¿powerful enough to achieve this was the labour • overcal.
But since that time there has been little effort by the CND leadership to potential support for hese problems were exposed by the election.
: a highly successf the Manchester city coun5000 people gathered in the city's Albert Square heard CND leaders give conflicting views on how to vote.
Pat Arrowsmith • for Labour CND and Helen John Greenham Common forcefully called for a Labour vote, whilst veeran peace campaigner EP Thompson argued for any vote to keep out the Tories His speech was based on his new pamphlet The Defence of Britain, the sequel to Protest and sursive, produced specially FOLLOWING the nuclear election and the mass arremain to build a movement which is capable of for the election.
His speech and pamphlet show a new shift in his thinking. His opening woras were unal unis cice tion is the most important in our time: "Not because l am optimistic but because I grow with each month pessimistic about civilisation's future' LUIC He called the Tories the nuclear rearmers and advised: 'Make your own iudgement in everv constituency guided by two confavour of a candidate with best anti-nuclear policies and vote in the best way ensure that Mrs administration not returned.' In contrast were the species ITOI Pat Arrowsmith and Helen John, representatives of the activist and optimistic wing of the CND leadership.
brought the fighting spirit of Upper Heyford, were ste one of those arrested, to closing words were, "Vote to end nuclear war on Thursday, -that means vote Labour.
Helen spoke on the confidence of the Greenham women that we can She disagreed WITn Thompson's speech, saying that tactical voting was useless, recalling tactical voting for Silkin cost Benn the deputy leadership of the Labour Party.
Calling for a vote for she added that votes for the Communist Party, the Ecology Party etc were waste volc Thompson's approach nothing but despair and defeatism.
The Greenham women who have started to build a movement against missiles labour movement, the defence of those arrested at the peace camps must be the starting point for all-out industrial action to stop the missiles. * A petition is circulation in Manchester calling fol the incoming Home Secretary drop the charges against those arrested at Upper Heyford. First signature Denis Healey.
The petition also comporting the decisions of Labour Party conference on Denis probably didn't read that part. • CND's leaders election failure - pages 8-9. Police try to gag nuclear protest at Upper Heyford by mass arrests Women EU
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rests at Upper Heyford, CND is entering the most critical phase of its recent history. Only six months