Crazee Gang in the White House.... HAIG SPELLS OUT BOMB PLANS

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have to be called to account. of action we need to build Labour Party policy is for before we all get blown to Haig finds the huge anti- Soviet Union.

E ARE the days when rulers of the United • felt any embarrassabout their belligerent bons. cretary of State Alex* Haig baldly announces Reagan was precisely

when he said there I be a limited nuclear i in Europe. bt only that, but NATO By has plans for firing lear missile as a warning he Soviet Union. The Ion of this warning' I be the Baltic ips the North Sea!

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efence Secretary Caspar berger tried to hush it by saying there was lately nothing in any that I know of that wins anything remotely abling that'. But it I up sounding more like of pique that he had not informed. tate Department jals claimed that

far warning shot had been part of NATO ting, and that after all, ; ought to know as he Supreme NATO Comder until 1978. lo the kid gloves are no need to beat around bush-Haig has announthe USA's intentions to world. Europe, or at I part of it, will be blown wieces or fried by radia: as a warning to the et Union. i's official US policy : a limited nuclear war De lought. And incy diso * that if it spreads into al-out holocaust, still can win! George Bush, r Vice-president, said last i that the USA could win -aclear war against the Russians ... because about 5% of Americans would survive!

Haig's remarks are welltimed. At the moment there is a large-scale navai exercise going on in the Carribean, which includes British ships and 41 US ships. Haig is discussing for ending the stalemate in El Salvador which include blockading Nicaragua and Cuba, maybe evn invading Cuba. US armed forces are also rattling sabres at Libya.

The Tories go along with this, as might be expected. And Denis Healey seems to go along with it too.

He simply suggested to Haig that he ought to tone down his threats. "You must speak softly when you carry a big stick."

I shour leaders like him unilateral disarmament. nuclear demonstrations Europe 'frustrating'. They could, he threatens, lead to a tendency to pull back from! Europe's defence!

So we need more huge demonstrations-and to start organising European and American workers against Reagan and Thatcher's warmongering.

The Australian dockers' recent one day strike in protest at the participation of Australian troops in the Sinai peace-keeping force was an example of the kind TY GO LAA pieces as a warning to the 20,000 tanker drivers are due to strike for an 11% claim from Monday November.

The Tories are already putting into effect plans for the army to break the strike.

These detailed plans have been on file since 1979, the last time a tanker drivers' strike was threatened.

The effects of a tanker drivers' strike could - be massive as power stations run out of fuel, road transport is brought to a complete halt and all filling stations are shut down.

So probably the drivers won't just have the army to contend with-there'll be attempts to get fuel out of depots that'll make the Laurence Scotts airlift look like child's play.

Picketing, and secondary picketing, will be absolutely essential. Flying pickets will have to be organised to cover the power stations and depots and stop all movement of oil.

. Army The Tories know how effective that " would be. That's why the army is being mobilised.

The fight won't be one just for the tanker drivers. If they are to win, the whole labour movement will have to actively support the drivers on the picket lines. That will be the key to succeSs.

The drivers want parity with Mobil drivers, who have already settled for 11%. The other companies, Shell, BP, Esso and T'exaco have offered 8%. The decision to strike was made at a TGWU delegate meeting.

UNION leaders •have threatened to call an all-out strike at Fords from November 24th unless the management improve their offer of 4.5% by this Friday (13th).

Alex Kitson has been quoted in the press as wanting this to be the strike that 'turns' the Tories. The way he's been talking you'd think he was on the other side of the world last week when the BL strike was sold out.

The Labour movement will have to force Kitson to stick to his words: "If the drivers do turn off the taps -there'll be nobody-not the army or anybody going into the refineries. They'Il have to pump the bloody fuel into the river"