women's day for the women held a Women's Fun Day. East London Peace Pledge Union showed the Bush Road.
Brent women organised a march theatre, music allu Chiswick women camped from Thursday to Saturday on Last year women had ended the days events by encircling the Ministry This year women came together at the end of the day in Jubilee Well Southwark a women's Other events took place in most other areas of the country. On the Isle of Wight women organised a protest directed at Plessey which makes nuclear Wal 100-strong public meeting Was Greenham speakers the Bold colThe links between the use of the police at Greenham and in the miner's strike were clearly • was less political than last ON 9 JUNE CND is holding a mass against DICK WITHECOMBE, a member of CND national council (writing in a personal capacity looks at the struggle to build the demo and the future for CND after it.
The movement against nuclear weapons is the largest international the Second World Wars i has the movement question since capacity to put in motion millions of people and wields a real influence in world politics.
Throughout the last four years of the rebirth of CND as a mass move. ment its national demonstrations have seen the movement in its greatest unity and strength. The October marches, 250,000 on the streets against Reagan's last visit, the demonstration in October after the general election. the mobilisations women, have been the closest guage of the peace movement's growth. our best answer to Heseltine's claim after the defeated and the clearest reply to those in the movement demoralised by the arrival of cruise. Building and mobilising for 9 June is not about 'just another London march'; it's our chance for the peace movement to say 'we're here, and we're here to stay.
will be smaller than our response 10 Reagan's last visit. leadership of the movement will want to use this to say no more big marches, prepare for the long haul. realism' of the nuclear freeze is already being resurrected from the dustbin it
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continuing A massive turn out on 9 June will he that mas Unfortunately it is likely that 9 June Sections the the movement The leadership. question answer of no! themselves.
Second, Thirdly, factors deepened. was placed in by the movement's las Proposals are circulating in upper circles for a vision, gradual steps to disarmament from th next general election in 1988, a ballo no first use and a nuclear freeze Voices are already raised on CND na tional council that it is possible to wit over those backbenchers who are sym pathetic to less 'hawkish' policies thai Thatcher's hardliners The duty of socialists in the peac movement should be to give unreserve commitment to CND as a single issu Callbalell against nuclea weapons, and to act as a unifying forc behind the slogans, programme and th campaigning methods that have see grow in size and in fluence since 1980. Bluntly that mean all out for 9 June, build CND, and de fend it against the 'new realism' of it But to do this we must explain wh is the real situation the mov ment, and ine real story June demonstration. . Talk of a 'crisi "demoralisation' of the movement is now widespread. But is really a movement in decline? To th we must give a resoundir Strength Since US imperialism embarked 1979 on its major campaign of nucle of three developments First the domination of the in perialist ruling classes has been weaker ed by the heightened exposure of the brutal nature in the Vietnam conflic and succeeding events, and by the pro found crisis of the capitalist economie the developing colonia revolution has sapped the political an material strength of imperialism despite overwhelmin hositility to the repression in the Sovie Eastern Europe strength of the workers' states is cleart shown even in a distorted form in fea of their military strength. No signifi cant section of the Western workin believes that a nuclear war wit the USSR is one that can be won Can anyone argue that any of the posite, since 1979 these processes hap has lessened? Quite the growin hostility to the actions of imperialis from the Middle East to Grenada. On could even say that there is an increase anti-us sentiment among millions workers across Europe. But its