THE GOVERNMENT is attempting to conceal the real threat from atomic power in the wake of the nuclear power is therefore one of the most important tasks for the left. JOHN ROSS looks at a book and a pamphlet that do just that — We All Live On Three whole ot as for Ucale of set allv Atlantic Haliulls ¿nailti. those 'freedoms' United States British imHiroshima with eight years of nuclear already place, US president lakeil ISCHIOWCI annuliccu a new phase of the atomic age. He called for 'atoms for peace' concerted drive public - opinion that nuclear power was sate.
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United States Energy It revealed that the headlines or become big battles. The burden of But when two women were sacked recently at une cal rotoau oncena me unon ses. ped in with a campaign backed by evidence of victimisation. Both women had been union representatives in their previous jobs, and they both work. ed for the same employer British Telecom. BT had already been exposed for its political vetting of employees by the Observer newspaper in October In the course of the union's campaign the Daily Mail was forced to admit that a 'secret memo from LWU. stewares, had fomented industrial disruption'. The Mail, which has led the attack on the women and 1/1107 branch which is defending them, has tried to portray such collusion between Stripped of all its rhetoric, the target of their hostilifv is anvone who presents an alternatıve because they cannot openly call upon all workers to renounce their right to hold views dif ferent from the bosses they have to create an offence and frame-up an enemy. In this instance it happens to be Socialist Action, but it could just as easily be the
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Chernobyl disaster. That is no innovation at all. The muclear industry started with a lie. It has continued as the most totally, and solely, destructive industry ever developed by humanity. Getting out the facts on
Mile Islend, by Greg Adamson and What Working People should Know About the Dangers of Nuclear