Somewhere up high, The youth mcto nacalal.
it's here to stay, fused. But Well it Even then the struggle wan't over I'm stili not sure where, it was decided that 9 June would not be a demonstration but a rallv in Olchlallull Trafalgar Square. A great way for more means than 100,000 people to spend an afternoon! Scores of phone calls were made before even this was dropped. So even- per circles tually everyone finally agrees to 9 June Campaign! appears late, leaflets organise and posters don't arrive until May, and the attractive large posters don'i even gramme No, the movement isn't in decline.
although a little conOND leadership? That's where our worries must lie. Those same activists based in CND groups around Cici u o rumme cass cuces nuure such as General Rogers are discussing Luv callvllal IUll2 1 alize lllas. destruction weaponry that can emerg from ine new technologies of the us arms industries. The popular frontist of the caucisill that 'Europeanisation' 'Non-Nuclear Defencism' is likely to become intoxicating within CND's upActivists in CND must now start to within the movement:
British unilateral nuclear disarmament; to defend CND and put forward a proFree Europe from Poland to Portugal; oppose no only US missiles but also trench and British nuclear weapons. These are the policies behind which a mass campaigning movement can unite.
Oa t. there were over 3000 violations of safetheres tomic Energy nutrity Atomic (AEC). those were minor violations.
when it comes to plutonium there is such a ling as a minor violation.' you of anything, it will convince you of the truth of that statement. Not only for that, it will convince you, if you needed convincing, that nuclear energy is inherent/s unsafe.
Ine euculcs taminated are 'washed down' chemicals, removing layer after layer of skin, are horrifyingly frightening.
Karen herselt plutonium poisoning, with the strong Kerr-McGee, drama.
Energy Authority But said the AEC, many of Says Burnham: 'I don't think that Mile Island If Silkwood is going to convince Silkwood where workers con- power, with eventual suffers either. ception of the contamination scenes the tim curious lacks tension and When Karen Silkwood took up her fight the movement against nuclear energy in the US hardly existed. Three had not yet happened.
Commonplaces such as that plutonium causes cancer were not even known amoug maly workers in nucicar planls Silk wood's weaknesses do not obstruc what is essential about its 'message' Through her lonely struggle Karen helped to create understanding of the evil of nuclear movement against it.
Despite its pitfalls, the film will spread an understanding of nuclear power and a knowledge of Karen's fight to hundreds of thousands who knew little of
Socialist Action 1 June 1984