Nuclear Disarmament

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June 1945: Healey speaks at Labour conference on foreign pólicy: "Its crucial principle must be to help the social revolution in Europe ... The upper classes in every country are selfish, depraved, dissolute and 1946: Healey takes a job as secretary to cold-war October 1980: Tory Party chairperson Lord Thorneycroft tells the BBC: "Actually Denis Healey is my candidate ... he is in fact much nearer to me and Mrs Thatcher than he is to Wedgwood Benn ... he is a worthy leader of any party ... There is enormous common ground between Denis and the Tory "Now there's a man after my heart.' plan for LAST month, all five of Labour's front bench defence. spokespersons signed a letter to the unions opposing Labour defence policy.

They called for nuclear disarmament and cuts in defence spending.

These are the allies Healey, and of NATO.

NATO's plans are now geared to starting a nuclear war - a 'limited' one, they say, costing perhaps only 20 million dead if it does not spread too far. A single nuclear bomb can kill millions and cover huge areas with deadly radiation. And there are thousands of them stockpiled.

As Tony Benn has pointed out, it would be no help to the workers of Poland in defending themselves noW against threatened Russian invasion if Poland had nuclear bombs.

Likewise, nuclear bombs - or any other weapons - in hands of Britain's generals (hard-bitten Tories, all of them) are a danger rather than a defence for British workers... and also a danger to workers elsewhere in the world.

That's why it is vital that Labour and TUC policy, for the next Labour government to get rid of Britain's nuclear arms and US nuclear arms in Britain, is implemented without fail And US nuclear arms in the US or in continental Europe are no less a risk to the world than nuclear arms in Britain. British Labour should also give a lead to the world-wide fight to disarm and overthrow the warmongers, by withdrawing from NATO

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