What is significant about the trade and finally socialism, in Britain. which does not rather than major organisations of the Thatcher hates Labour not for what it does - the one mass party of the That is why she is why • today every on 11 June, without equivocation, they didates are offered the stricture: It is not CND policy to support or endorse Labour canetones. Nor is it policy seek dorsement.
Predictably, the Labour leadership intends the maximum distance between itselt and the nuclear disarmament movement during the election campaign. But who GOer leadership imagine it will win votes from if not the hundreds of thousands of disarmers across the country?
fact, the summary of party policies listed in the "Advice Note' the policy directorate who issued it are forced into a downright lie in order put across the leadership's i new UȘ bases in Britain reads:
will continue to provide bases and communications facilities for US conventional forces to assist in the detence of Europe ano North American allies. We wish ¡to • remove nuclear wil. The pre-election rally atmosphere created in Blackpool meant that the majority of delegates were repared to acquiesce he launch of the Labou defence campaign on December 1986, all mention of the nuclear bases had gone from the polic document, The Power To Defend Our Country.
The second stage of ditching unilateral nuclear disarmament came more recently, on the eve of Nell Kinnock's ill-fated visit to the USA. in response to the Soviet proposals to get rid medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe were then on the table, Kinnock said that abour would delay retur Spending outcome of such talks. Created Thus leadership has not only dropped removal ot. US nuclear bases but has also createa a aclucial aut biguity on whether or no all nuclear weapons would lifetime of government. TO reinforce the point, Still
Socialist Action 22 May 1987