marinalised in both the military and political new order that Reacan is interested in bulding in Europe.
are passing through the heads of some leading Tories. For example, some, including the Times are interested in pulling the 55,000 strong British Army on the Rhine back home and spending the money saved on Trident and on a strike force for killing people in the Third World: in other words you drive a tank through the propaganda about the Soyiet military threat in central Europe but HALLO) chauvinism back note America Jolnuy derending West' against the Third World.
On the other side of the debate, the Financial Times, David Owen and the Labour right want to respect the Soviet threat, give priority to the British Army in Germany, raise the banner of European capitalist unity, scrap Trident and spend more on conventional defence denuclearising sulaledy.
But what wid inouguls Reaganauts Denis a future!
contains blinkered imperialist with Thatcher Reality.
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plutocrats valle La little will persuade the be nice to Western Europe's capitalists and thereby give Social Democratic leaders like Neil and The answer to this question may seem paradoxical but it difference between Social Democratic cretins and people engaged in serious politics. The cretins think that Washington will the be nice to Europe if Europe's labour leaders go down on their belly like Len Murray in front of the New ReaganThe truth is in fact opposite: American will only consider giving a future to European welfare capitalism and social democratic reformism it 11 believes the capitalists of Europe might really go under thanks to socialist adSo if we want to give our Neil any chance (and more seriously the Labour MacGregor and Thatcher packing to Washington with serious problems to talk about. And this takes us back to where we becan - - to Reagan's inabilibeat the Sandinistas alle Salvadorian masses, despite mne Dut chery of tens of thousands on the orders of the US. Thanks to the revolutionaries in Central America, there is some future for reformists in Europe. In Mexico and Brazil and other parts of region. Washington has through bitter experience to understand and respect popular power. The! ave HoH u comemuorue velintrigues and hypocritical doubletalk characteristic of the present imperialist leaders of Western Europe.
This Rengan-ite order Europe could still be undermined by further peace movement actions the blocking of cruise in Holland. But the ciminal refusal of the leaders of the Socialist Parties in the EEC to turn the Euro-elections into a great mobilisation EI realities of NATO capitalism has arisen amono the peace movement and the socialist activists in forces are now beginning to regroup for a new and much native to the crisis than the slogans of the Social Democratic leaders used in come the boom vears This challenge Reagan himself. He will be buried soon enough. But in historical terms the challenge is very great because the longterin vasis or post-war Allanlicısı was never the traditional parties of the right in in Europe but the social democratic labour movements. like Callachans and Mitterands rested os, the something very real, things like full employment, expanding welfare rights and growing prosperity. A new awareness of the militarist Europe. These more radica alter would. ideological Sovietism:
need not •all Germany , And the ascendan- hysterical, Wilsons, Schmidts, deed democratic rights as well.
Reaction This destruction of welfarism, full employment and democratic rights of colse destroy the basis for NATO's antiWhat would West German workers think if faced with a choice of with unemployment and no welre elt and another authoritarian state in East with full employment and welfarism? Thus to carry through the destruction of 35 years of working class gains would require quite a new form o!
right-wing reaction Western Europe. But if profit rates cali Labour Focus on Eastern Europe.
Socialist Action 8 June 1984
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