Every newspaper seamed to tell the ame tale. This was CND's last gasp. Every najor European power self to the new generation of NATO missiles.
But can they really afford to be so comlacent? The answer is yes if CND connues along the course Neil Kinnock and *P Thompson want it to go. To go for a reeze now and to adopt demands that miror opinion polls in The Guardian. If Cruise prives CND would then let its main focus ecome demands for a no first use agreesent, negotiations towards the reduction • nuclear weapons and oppostion to new peapons like Trident.
Such a strategy will ensure a speedy ecline in the membership and activity of ND.
You don't need the masses to back up a trategy based on multilateral disarmaaent talks. After all they' a been going on or the last 20 years without a mass move ment behind them.
But the answer will be different if Neil nd Edward don't get their way. pere large contingents of trade unionists nd Labour Parties lemonstration, large numbers of youth and strong presence lomen.
Talk is afoot of some spectacular actions • Cruise arrives at the beginning of lovember. The planned eenham Women Against Cruise — to set • Peace Camps at all 102 American Bases Britain - seems likely to focus the ebate sharply again.
But the real question for CND activists what do we do when Cruise arrives at Greenham. The answer is as Tony Benn ays on the front pages of the latest Naanal Labour Briefing. olitics in CND, not less, to carry on the Eht.
We must immediately build the mass ssembly against Trident in Manchester in ebruary. Secondly during the European lections, we must organise with all the insquity we can to take European-wide açon against all 562 missiles. Even if we an't stop the factories in Britain working should focus on stopping the schools, he colleges and the universities.
Thirdly, CND must stop worrying about 'Soviet Threat' out the real threat. The US warmongers d their Western allies who are at this mont threatening the peace of all those ho live in the Middle East by their ilgitimate interference in the ebanese people and have now invaded But to achieve all these things we have o organise in CND to save it from the Neils and Edwards of this world. Now is the time ar the left to unite and fight in CND as it asn't before.
has committed There on last Weekend's from the Greenham action by ST EDINIDS ORD NORTH LEEDS 4 PEACE 'GROUP All pictures by GM COOKSON
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