nuclear weapons when it could be spent on schools, houses and hospitals and transport.
The women then went on to join Lambeth Women for Peace to do the 'Lambeth Walk' down Brixton Hill for an afternoon of international events in St Matthews Town Hall, Brixton.
Wimbledon Women for Peace held a demonstration outside Merton Town of CND: year when Labour Councils were approached for support and local government trade unions took strike action. But the women's peace movement is still one of the most dynamic sections Socialist women should be active in socialist men throuch their Labour Parties, trade unions and CND groups should give it their full backing. substance is a growing fear that foreign policy and actions can give r to nuclear holocaust. Fundamentally is that "fear' that has fuelled the grow of the anti-missiles movement amon ine mass or peopic Where the movement has keyed il to that sentiment it has shown its re
strength - from the 250,000 against Reagan two years ago, behind the spirit and determination of the Greenham women, and in the very successfui local actions outsice the Easter, The on could have been added to this list: but from the start the right wing in CND have done their best to sabotage it.
projects session: the bases Tn1s newsletter Campaign. was the national non-violent direct action (NVDA)' on into civil disobedience were quitetly hidden.
committee, executive movement, and otticers were out into emergenc deadline for CND's back, The negotiations that followed went candlelight hours. But the country, at the grass roots of the who combined to force sense into (ND and win the march on y June, must now look to organising the fight for the future ot the movement Resolutions for CND conference must be in by b July - not long to prepare for probably its most important discussion in four years.
CND leaders are preparing for the 'historic compromise supposed!y ON 13 NOVEMBER 1974, Karen Silkwood was driving alone to meet a New York Times reporter. With her was a dossier she had compiled on the dangerous and haphazard work conditions at the Kerr-McGee plutonium factory where she worked as a lab technician.
She never ment. Later the wreck of her car was found by the highway. Inside was Karen, dead. The dossier was missing.
ficial verdict of accidental death. The case was declared closed.
year investigation by family, friends and anti-nuclear campaigners grew into a campain to uncover the truth. recently February tempts were being made to prevent the release of Silkwood, Mike Nichol's new film about Karen, Streep.
failed, and with its twin superstar leac (Cher plays Karen's friend Sherri) the pany.
kept that appointacutar.
her A hasty investigation led to the ofsuffers Not everyone was satisfied. A seven employers As 1983 legal atSaltile Meryl somehow But the attempt to suppress the film HOyt. Socialist Action 1 June 1984 Meryl Streep plays Silkwood in Mike Nichol's film of the same name now on release.
implication that it is deliberate retaliation for her investigation of the comThe dramatisation of the dangers of nuclear powers is one or ihe nm'! strongpoints. Its other main strength is its portrayal of the anguish of isolation which can face anyone fighting a large company or bureaucracy, but which in this society can affect women in parAs Karen becomes more and more alarmed at the company's activities, and more involved in union activity, relations with the other workers sutter and her bovtriend Drew walk! out on her. All the pressures on her are to give up the fight and cut her losses, but she retuses to submit Also well portrayed is the sinister sexual content in the harassment she supervisors There are two crucial werknesses First, the emphasis which is put on Karen's sexuality, the portrayal of her Pervading the film is the suggestion that hostility to her, and indeed her self-assertion is • linked to her sexuality. strongly suspect that this aspect of the and the use of Meryl Streep in the lead role, owes more to the need to make a 'commercial' film than to pre.
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aed a statement appeared: CND sup- London on 9 June, and well considered