Islington pienie | Socialist Action 1983

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parliament under the West German system of proporfiona. representation. was widely hailed as the first ełectoral breakthrough in Germany of a party to the left of the SPD since the collapse OnCe powerful German Communist in the early days of the Cold War. Missiles The gains of the Green Party were almost exactly equivalent to the losses of te SrD, and I was cital that. among young voters, particular, the Greens bad made very heavy inroads into traditional social-democratic strongThis success was due to the principled stand of the Greens on the issue of nuclear disarmament. Although the SPD did ander the pressure of its rank and file and after the break-up of their governwith the cal coallion Liberals eventually reject the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles. it was the Greens who had made the running on this issue. Hundreds of lousinus or young voltas a similar OCCIC in SupDOrICIS of the British ceded post voting system. reality, is not the real social project.

Blush In West Germany, the SPD has been in government 1966 until 1982, in coalition first with the Christian Democratic CDU and then the business-oriented liberal FDP. Every generation of young left-wing &. ment militants since the had to confront the SPD as a government party practicing right-wing policies of the kind that man the Hostile In Britain, where the defeat of the Callaghan government in 1979 initiatied a deep upheaval in the Labour walere the mainstream movement is committed to unilateral nuclear disarmahostile to nuclear power, where the major industrial unions are affiliated to CND and HOSANIS of (SERA) and feminists active in the Labour Party and TUC unions, the picture is very different.

Here the Ecology Party at best, those activists who alt still suspicious of the genuine nature of Labour's conversion to the causes of saving the natural environabolishing nuclear they are simply hostile to the working class movement. Either way represents a cop-out from The Islington council invited a deputation from • Women I Support oI the Miners' to have tea with last Children's Instead nave wItn steps polite people the mayor, local mayor Pat women.

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THIS WEEK Ann Pettifor takes up the debate started by Tony Benn's inSocialist Action 8 June 1984 It is clear that all these men are