LAST WEEKEND Tories pulled every dirty trick in the book to try to the anti-nuclear demonstrations avail. Michael Heseltine was- despatched to Berlin wall. Thatcher was furious in the Commons.
But still, in demonstrations up and down the SHOC than 100,000 people turned out oppose the Tories' nuclear plans.
Easily In the Berkshire 'nuclear valley' CND easiachieved its 14-mile human chain.
And in Glasgow 20,000 people turned out for the march following the dramatic "die in'.
At the same time half a million people took part in anti-nuclear demonstations in West Germany.
the demonstrations in Britain Germany tremendous rebuff to Reagan's missile plans.
Time But time is running short — the cruise missiles and the Pershings will be in Europe by December at the latest. The time has come to capitalise on the bloody nose which the Tories received over the weekend, by stepping up the campaign.
The next target is the YCND festival to be held on 7 May, when thousands of young people will show they want a future without cruise and without • Weekend demonstrations — see page 3 paign of the government.
and virtually none from the trade unions.
This absence highlights the question which CND now has to face - what to do from here, with only Last weekend's demonstrations were a victory for CND against the crude stage-managed smear camBut there was an obvious and crucial weakness. Both in the Scotland and the 'nuclear valley' protests there were very few labour movement banners, eight or nine months to go before the arrival of the misslies.
CND leaders explained at the weekend that their main perspective is for stepping up civil disobedience at the bases and for ILaSS door-to-door 'peace canvass'.
Neither of these things on their own will maximise the potential for mobilising hundreds of thousands against the missiles.
ference voted in favour of an increased orientation to the labour movement and to ensure that the jected TUC/Labour Party demonstration later in the year came off.
The CD eaders are bound by these decisions to plan a demonstration actively mobilised by the TUC and the Labour Parhere...? The Falklands War a warning to the movement ticular responsibility Pages 8 and 9 Alain Krivine on the Mitterrand government Zimbabwe the legacy of Lancaster House MODERN TIMES the the the Oh, shut up! Somebody has Michae Heseltine
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