country.
All socialists committed to huilding a mass campaign agains? nuclear "еароп» mus: throw nemase les massive demonstration a opposition Reagan's Furo-missiles and tor nuclear free Europe. But has also shown the deep crisis of strategy thal nas hit the peace movement.
By Dick Withecombe.
national council MeemDer (personal capacity)
held The wicel sentiments against US foreign policy has prevented a decline in the fact movennent.
Easter actions against Us nases helped to mobilise tens of thousands of CND But the hig question being asked around the country is what do we do now cruise has arrived?
CND's leadership has floundered for months. They understand that will take big social forces get TIO However the forces they ook lo wing movement hut the 'broad SDPl L'alral and Tore Liberal wets of Professor Eric Hobsbawm.
Fortunately the peace movement inrew out the new realism of a freeze at in December. Since then the right in CND have been regrouping. hese discussions will slowly emerge in the build up this year's For the last six months however, CND's leaders have simply failed to lead.
The response the movement of the cruise LUlIVUY. evictions from Greenham Commor has neen un oordinated. Worse. CAD: Janudrl national council decided not protest U allisc ally against Reagan's visit.
Pressure groups, Action '84 and, in particular, London region CND's decision organise a demonstration on eventually forced a reversal. li was only in national was decided national publicity has only heen available since the heginning of May.
As a result it is likely that 9 June may well he smaller than the quartermillion cemonstauon during Reagan's last visit.
Peace movement
tivists have scored big success in fighting tor the future of by this But must not stop there. It will be in the CND groups that the march will be built.
And the future policies ot the movement must he oecoec ov ivists as well, not in secre Goodwin ICCEle Street, or the edited pages of Sanity.
It is the mass sentiment against US foreign policy which is understood by millions as bring a nuclear holocaust closer, that fires CND's continued growth. Further actions must key into that sentiment.
Al ine same tine, have no interest in replacing US Euro-missiles with force de frappe and independent turopean nuclear deterrents. That is nuclear eree Europt from slogan will Portugal to Poland' is now one that must be taken up by the whole peace movement.
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PRESIDENT REAGAN's visit for the World Sum- mit on 9 June has helped bring about a determina- tion and unity in the peace movement that has been missing for six months. Coaches and trains have been booked by CND groups and regions around the