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away sentence, has done more these last few days to build CND than years of hard slog and propaganda.

For what Reagan has stupidly admitted is that CND is absolutely right. Nuclear 'deterrence' is a myth.

"I could see where you could have the exchange of tactical nuclear weapons against troops in the field without bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the button"

So the American government has admitted that it truly believes a limited, tactical, nuclear war is possible and winnable.

if you hadn't quite caught on where this little war is to be fought, the answer is right here in Europe, where US imperialism is busy installing Pershing, Trident and Cruise missiles, and deploying the neutron bomb.

Thatcher's defence spokesperson, John Nott, sees 'nothing controversial' in Reagan's statements.

Rut Dangan ic statina that the US is willing to start a nuclear war from quite limited conflicts. He reckons it would remain "limited' (just a few tens of millions dead?) but in reality the holocaust would certainly spread. strike.

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For thirty years, the politicians, the militarists, and the owners of the powerful and enormously rich war industries have repeatedly told us that nuclear weapons are the best guarantee of we need a special the upcoming BL is appealing to the but it will need a ialist Organiser is : need money for meetings: travel, 28 Middle peace. The deterrent of nuclear annihilation would ensure that the bloes had to coexist, however uneasily.

Now, on top of the obscenity of billions and billions being squandered while the vast mass of the world's population exists in misery, we are being told that this deterrence argument is a load of old nonsense!

Nuciear war is no longer NandanT 1st iona landar unthinkable for American imperialism in its drive to regain the initiative against the ruling bureaucracies of the Stalinist states and to reverse the many defeats it has suffered in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere.

Major General Robert vetted speech lo the Assoriation of the United States Army that there was "a drift to war" with the USSR, and that the US would use the neutron bomb. The man has been sacked for his comments. Having already made a gaffe with Reagan's comments, the US government wants to "knock this one hard on the head" to shore up the tattered confidence of its European allies.

But like Helmut Schmidt, whose government may fall in the wake of the new revelations and the fight in Germany against Cruise missile sitings, our own right wingers in the unions and Labour Party must be feeling very sick indeed The unilateralism of the Party's ranks will be stiffened even further, and these remarks can only further discredit the warmonger NATO alliance and swing even bigger sections of the labour movement bchind the drive to puil out of it.

While the feeling in the Party and the trade unions, and the working class as a whole, is towards a more militant anti-war direction, the leadership of the labour movement - Foot, Healey. and the trade unión barons like Basnett - are pushing precisely in the opposite direction. Given Healey's outspoken statements that he will not serve in a unilateralist government, the drive is now on to emasculate the Party's democratically decided position.

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is up to Labour Party and trade union activists, and all those concerned with avoiding nuclear war, to campaign not only against Reagan, Thatcher and Nott, but also against the Trojan Horse of the right wingers LEA . the leadership of the lab1r movement.

The defeat of the unilatalists in 1961 by the right ing and Gaitskell must not : repeated.

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