Freeze movement demonstration: should be supported in the United States ultimate measure of its success.
The ultimate capacity of the movement to find an organisational expression in the US labour movement prove to be an indication of its future the growth and power. the the Democratic Party politicians who claim support for the nulcear freeze understand the extent of popular support for an end to the arms race, but they fear the thrust of an independent mass movement against Washington's war drive.
This was also the case during the movement against the Vietnam When the first demonstration against war was held Washington, DC, demonstrators accu hostility from a large American population. paign of mass action, demonstrations, teach-ins and student strikes never let and the antiwar movement even. tually won the hearts and minds of a majority of the American people. The antiwar movement was not only an instrumental factor in forcing the United States out of Vietnam. It so profoundly altered the political climate in the coun try that the American ruling class still strains against the albatross of the VietThe movement against the war in Vietnam showed the power of masses of people - mobilised in the streets and broad, democratic decisionconferences win the withdrawal of US troops, and to overcome the manoeuvres of forces oriented towards the Democratic Party Today with the cutbacks in social massive unemployment, al tacks on minority and women's rights, and attacks against the unions, the potential power of the antiwar, anti weapons movement even greater than during the 1960s. While less than 14 per cent of the public sup'immediate withdrawal' Vietnam in 1965, today a large majority not only oppose new US weapons in Europe but are against US intervention in Central America Despite the formal wording of the resolution for a bilateral freeze, there is an inherent dvnamic to this campaigr that focuses on the US role in the arms It is ine umica slales Inal unilaterally raising the stakes of the by its relentless military When a million people demonstrate in America against nuclear weapons Not thi action aimed directly at Washington? When citizens in Utah and Montana demand that no missiles be placed in their state isn't this a unilateral demand on the US government? When demonstrators call for 'Jobs, not Bombs,' or 'No Neutron Bombs,' isn't this aimed unilaterally at Washington continues escalate the arms race, the demand for
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