WEAPONS IN the hands of, and at the disposal of the British military establishment have but one purpose. They are there to serve the needs ot our ruling class.
In the famous words of von Clausewitz 'War is the continuation of politics by other allow a non-accountable, non-elected military cabal to arm itself — — there can only be one outcome. the interests of Than OWN knowledge and understanding that we should look at the proposals debated at the Labour Party national executive this Wednesday.
Neil Kinnock is now Polaris is going to Df their place we are promised bigger and better 'conventional' weapons. As the report to the NEC says a reduction in tne relative lever or britains derence spentullig 'could not be achieved in the lifetime of a single parliament without which we do not recommend. When you get away from the rhetoric. this means that Britain maintain, tional weapons so it could play its role in NATO. Europe faces a threat from the USSR and that to meet such a policy this threat it must make an alliance with its EEC partdian of liberty politik about it. Even the old like realey nave reached the conclusion that Polaris is now obsolescent and that Trident is too expensive.
They also know that the opposition Knes across the Labour Party nock is suggesting that we turn back to the alliance of Britain based its policy allance aralist lic banner that Attlee German rearmament down the throats of a reluctant Labour Party Conference at Scarborough It is also a policy which guarantees that the Russian people, albeit reluctantly, lefence policies. If the western states are armed to the нА А — * ™ see no reason to oppose the policies of the Kremlin bureaucrats.
Labour must recognise that the fight for volves opposing your own ruling class and Kinnock's proposals come nowhere near to recognising that, in fact they give support to the arguments of Reagan anc Thatcher.
and wher WCas be the weapons nuclear or 'conventional' They will use them in TRANS Talen prepared to cancel Trident. decommisioned by a future major cuts in our conventional forces would not only but it would actually build up its convenwester assume to sente custo In reality this has the stench of real die hard right-wingers to cruise stretand beyond. Neil Kinin 1954.
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