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the critical tial common brace Nuclear SUCS The essence of all these discussions however is a move to allute tun damentalism' and to adapt it to the 'middle ground' This policy becomes clearest of all when we talk about national I political Communist Party spelt it out in his article in Marxism Today in April 1983 "Faced with a government dominated by the militarist right, eager to rearm and to seek peace through strength, the broadest spectrum is vital. Here division is not between multilateransts and unlaleraists Du between rearmers and disarmers. In anan todav inere does exist a Dutchi programme of agree ment across the centre and the left of the political spectrum Its essential theme is that the arms race must be halted and steps begun to reverse it.
Bloomfield's advocacy of a kind of 'peace coalition' could even emthe British established, at least in part, precisely to oppose unilateral nuclear disarmament - the SDP nuclear halts, nuclear cutbacks, advocating this or that in the NATO counci are not around which should CND's forward planning should be to achieve a unilateralist government and the abolition of all nuclear weapons, not lo dilute our in favour of an 'anticoalition which leaves the bombs in place The result of the CND leaderSires cute weaken the however, • to weaken base for unilateral nuclear disarmament that does exist; that is, the two-thirds majority inside the Labour Party and the support organised clearly spelled out at the Trade Union movement This Dave Douglass - the delegate from annual meeting this year Yorkshire area of the NUM.
urged delegates to fight like mad to defend unilateralism in moveand condemn as a crime the fact that the moves to water down thi commitment started first inside the peace movement with the freeze.
In 1983 activists around the coun try organised to defend CND's programme against the freeze. That fight The movement should into the open and not carried on behind closed doors.
Mike Pentz might say in private we're all agreed tha dump the word • Let him say it at CND conference Conference also notes that the 1983 conall nuclear bases British and