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Name Address Please send me as special offer ACTION STEP UP THE SUBSCRIBE I enclose cheque/PO payable to Socialist Action for E. Send i: Suciulist Action Subs, 328 Upper St. London N/ 2XP. ly. The lethal Pershings are being deployed in West Germany. Heseltine may pretend that it's a victory for NATO and the warmongers, but things are not so simple.
jority opinion in all the recipient nations is heavily against the missiles. For the first time the German opposition party — the SPD — has come out against the missiles, an action which breaks the bi-partisan concensus on defence and foreign policy in West Germany. ment throughout Europe, and to CND in Britain is The installation of the missiles has resulted in the collapse of the intermedlary missile talks. all! event, the United States and its ales are determined to create overwhelming nuclear superiority. The chances for a negotiated agreement are minimal so long as the West maintains this stance. After this autumn's mass demonstrations maThe message to the anti-missiles movedon't give up the fight to send the missiles back What we have now in Europe completely situation. The overHaUL public opinion is hostile to the missiles; the talks have collapsed and the missiles The task facing the missiles movement therefore to redouble its efforts at tion of the opposition to get the missiles removed Politicians for a negotiate agreement is a non-starter.
Now that the missiles are here, concentration on the demand for a nuclear 'freeze' will demobilise the movement. At WOrSU it means sanctioning the missiles that are already here, at best - if it means a freeze at pre-deployment levels will just confuse people Ot course tnose wne point out that many more Using musical instruments, whistles, they did last year.
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people against the missiles than are in lavour of unilateral disarmament are right. CND's policy of highlighting actions against the missiles, rather than nuclear weapons in been " general, has also beh. capsulted can encapsulated with slogans against the missiles rather than confusion The whole point of CND's • campaigning both against the missiles before the missiles issue arose was that it focussed on the need for unilateral action by Britain break the allis lake spiral. Since the deployment of the missiles, and since the huge demonstration. Europe this autumn the number people in Britain in favour conto elt unilateral nuclear disarmament has doubled.
Instead of counterposing anti-missiles campaigning unilateral nuclear disarmament, CND must build on the ant misteralist feeldeepen unilateralist ing. That is the trend in any case. weekend meets in conference The opinion polls in throughout Europe show the arrival of the missiles have not demobilised opposition The time has come to buil on the gains already made to extend opposition Cruise to the fight agains Trident, US nuclear bases the British Bomb and the warmongers' With these tasks ahead CND need neither a retreat on policy nor a retreat on the organisallulla front.
The most determined camDalecis for unilateralisn in Labour CND, Youth among the be championed, should championed not repressed and witch hunted.
Photomontage Loraine Lees ON 11 DECEMBER thousands of women will descend on the missile base at Greenham Common for the "Sound around Greenham'.
Spots and pans and anything else that makes a noise, the women will surround the base as Both last year's chain of women round Greenham and this year's demonstration will be on the anniversary of the 12 December 1979 NATO decision to site the missiles in After Heseltine's threat to shoot women
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who get into the base, 11 December will show that the women at Greenham are just part of a giant army of women against the missiles.