SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

By Stuart Holland

Socialist Action No. 5, 16 April 1983 · p. 8 of the scan · 209 words

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page 8 of the scan

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Thatcher-Reagan weapons, European nuclear of the British entails supranational solutions. This contribution opens a debate on the way torfor the Western European ruture issues will carry articles from internaof field weapons had littered Europe with the armoury of Armageddon long before the neutron bomb, cruise missiles, SS 20's or Pershing rockets became part of 'Mutually assured destruction' through the use of nuclear weapons has given way with increased improved delivery systems to the concept of a winnable Strategic deterrence theory has given way to a new theory of tactical deterrence. With it, the premise •that nuclear weapons are unusable has been buried, as most of Europe would Challenging the militarism of the nuclear strategies carries force without stressing that the Soviet Union has followed rather than led new weapons systems developments in the West (atomic and hydrogen intercontinental bombers, ICBMs and others). Not least, it has to be asked whether the Soviet Union can really afford to maintain such an armaments effort when it cannot feed its own people, nor respond to rising conSOLIDARI BRITISH FROM LIMBURG * The failure of the Common Market

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