IT WAS ALL very low key and predictable. At the end of the defence debate, on noon, the BBC commentator said that the Labour Party had made a 'slight shift to the right'.
that the party's commitment to nuclear disarmament may be on record but, in other respects, the has made defence.
Many delegates had not read the NEC statement before the debate.
should send to Walworth® get the document, and discuss it - now.
We must insist the party campaigns for its policy to: refuse cruise missiles, cancel Trident, close US nuclear bases, send all weapons DICK scrap Polaris and all other British nuclear wcapUlls We must begin to put these LIKE TO UNEMPLOYED Wednesday afterIt was more than that. But even he recognised fundamental compromises on policies to the voters There was confusion tirin This document the general election. will not up. Many speakers in the made this point.
vice chair CND (personal capacity)
But thing clear: the right has not, and will not, give up their attacks for the of unity. RON TODD Gavin Laird of the AUEW called for the rejection of the document from a right wing point of view, made a vitriolic attack on the Soviet Dennis Healey spelled out his opposition to removing US bases.
The document's unconditional enthusiasm for remaining in NATO has strengthened his hand.
In the debate, Healey warned against actions which "through lack of difficult to produce conventiona Strategi by making the Americans, for example, take their troops out of Europe, because then Europe on its own could not produce effective conventional deterrence.
He still opposes unilateral action to remove. Joy Hurcombe US nuclear bases. He would do a deal with the US to retain their forward bases for nuclear weapons here and no doubt that would that missiles would also stay.
slalencil Coll Urs base on respite tall bases - CHIC the fact that those bases part of NATO's nuclear strategy. This has allowed Healey to call for negotiations. He supports stronger conventional defence for NATO, and total commitment to subordination to the US.
Even on Polaris, Healey has not given in. A section of the states that the Tories should phase out Polaris by negotiation in the next few years. Healey rather than decommission Polaris (which is also a DENIS HEALEY fudge), we should put it into negotiations since are more trustworthy than Composite 41, callin for the removal of al American bases was rejected, and the NEC state ment given a five-to-one majority on a card vote.
Our task now is press for no compromises on In barticular we must take up the issue of NATO, and insist that past policy on reduction in defence spending is put into the centre of the document Reducing spending on defence using that money create socially useful products has always OCCI demanded that Trident's Dolly policy.
£11 billion could be better spent on hospitals, or 9000 new schools
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