THIS WEEKEND giant army of women will descend Greenham Common air-base, resplendant with pots, pans, whistles and musical instruments. Anything that makes a lot of noise. Wreeham on the fo Women to fourth anniversary of NATO's decision to site the new generation Europe. They' be bring ing mirrors to turn the base insid and fields that The Ir Around the Greenham base This action is one year after women embraced th base, forming 9-mile human chain and hanging drawings, Rid clothes and toys on the perimeter fence in a life affirming protest against the missiles of death.
That initiative was an whole movement in the rear that followed. And support for the Greenham women has course of the nissiles have arrived, and Secretary Michael Heseltine has already threatened that troops will fire the womer necessary.
Despite the monger's threats slanders, the anti-missile unila in Sheffield.
dent, and against a British unilateral freeze.
'There's nothing here that's meant to undermine the US peace mov said the mover of the amendme which threw the •We support that demand because mobilises builds the Us peace movement. But a freeze polic for pulls CND's tree up by its roots.
Vauxhall Labour Party delegate Speaker after speaker affirmed that far from being. first SUCU towards unilateralism, freeze was a step backwards for CND. This was defeat for chairpersor Joan Ruddock those whose support for step-by-step approach has been well aired in the last few months.
During the made known its support for the Greenham by defeating a resolution call ing for ČND to organise a mixed action at Greenham. This support was snown ume and time again by the applause every reference Greenham evoked.
Another area attracting overwneling support was this year's labour tion, calling for CND to the TUC approach Labour Party to jointly SOULSOL lationa MASS ACTION to stop the missiles! No retreat on teralism! That was the verdict of CND's annual Delegates voted overwhelmingly for more actions to stop cruise and Tridemonstration and to back up their support by effective industrial action. *It industrial possible during the first wave of CND, said John Chowcatt (TUCND), 'how much more possible is it today?' CND's leadership will find it more difficult to sit on this deciAmerica CND's annual conference speaking sion than they have in the past.
But not all conference decisions were to be ap plauded anti-NATO resolution was referred back, passed which called for th mutual dissolution of NATO and the Pact.
Stop After a witch-hunting attack on the Revolution newspaper by Dan Smith, conference supported the youth committee. On the closure though, a reference back showed that support for the executive was less cerHowever, in the shor discus possible to refute the executive's sme that difficulties stemmed faction fighting Despite such set backs, clear note: unity around anti-nuclear /struggle 1984.
CND and Central *If we are to have a strong and effective peace movement, we have to broaden it out and extend it back to its roots. The peace movement of today is the anti-imperialist movement of earlier years. So said Tony Benn at the Tribune fringe meeting a These sentiments were echoed by over 100 delegates and observers who attended another fringe meeting organised by Sheffield CND, 'US Intervention A Threat to World Peace', where Francisco D'Escoto, the Nicaraguan Ambassador, was