SUPPORT FOR a nuclear freeze has spread very widely in the United States. Should American socialists give their endorsement to movement or should they insist that the movement be unilateralist?
In the following article which is an edited version of that appeared in American Socialist Action the author MARK HARRIS argues that the freeze movement should be supported. He points out that its dynamic will lead it into conflict with American ruling take it along the path against the military goals of US imperialism.
The stakes in the struggle against nuclear war are immense., J'here are some 50,000 nuclear ready for use in the world today with the capacity human life some 22 times over.
As Albert Einstein said, know what weapons are going to be user in the next war. But I know verv well the ones that will be used in the war after that: "the bow and arrow.' With this sober realisation in mind, nearly three million people took to the streets of Europe's major cities last Oc cober in opposition to Ronald Reagan's clan for deploying 572 Pershing Il and Cruise missiles in Europe. In West Germany alone, where 108 Pershing missiles will be based, more than a million people demonstrated on 23 October.
A million people gathered in New York City on 12 June 1982, in the history, to protest the spiraling nuclear arris buildup. Contrary glit assertion in 1981 that a limited nuclear exchange is possible in Europe, millions of people instinctively grasp the reality that a nuclear war is not winnable' United States the latest resurgence of the anti-nulcear weapons movement took its initial form in the campaign for a bilateral freeze of the arms race by the United States and the Soviet Union. Ballot propositions eight of nine states and hundreds of cities have expressed widespread support for the bilateral freeze proposal.
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