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DON'T WAIT for the by-election. Bermondsey MASS CANVASS. Sunday January 9, 11am, from 133 Lower Road, London SE16.

We are writing in angry response to, the article 'Campaigning against the missiles' SO no. 108 and also to draw critical attention to the present state of CND.

Because the article appeared under the 'Women in Struggle' page and emphasizes the fact of it being purely a women peace-camp, we must question its effectiveness and relevance to the women's struggle as a whole. The activists did not use the publicity to draw links between women's daily struggles under capitalism and how this relates to the imperialist war drive. This would have benefitted both the women's and the peaçe movements.

Instead • the • women allowed themselves to be exploited by both CND and the media . as objects of sympathy becäuse they were women.

As socialists we must point out the relationships between imperialism, capitalism, and the bourgeois state. Therefore the women would have realised the state would never interpret the word peace in their interests.

No support As socialists our attitude io peace camps should be one of no support. Peace camps, and the doublespeak of non-violent dirent action which • they engender, serve only to distract from the major :ask of building the mass campaign, based in the working class - building inks with Unions, the Labour Party and LPYSs, ine unemployed, etc. in short, winning the workng class to a revolutionary programme, the only -*ective means oi achievinilateral nuclear ::: rmament.

La the same way as indiador terrorism : 'eplaces *e *t olutionery pr irt, and ass • ith an elite ind in Monday Tuesday Wednesdav Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday the end an ineffective secretive group, so the peace camps lead to the general neglect of the mass campaign.

The middle-class nature CND shows itself in the moralistic and libertarian approach to the practical struggle for nuclear disarmament: the martyrdom and the sexism of Greenham common, and its inability to confront the -aw Dear Comrades, I am a member of the LPYS and I would like to comment on Bill Peters' article on the T&GWU leader Alan Law. Comrade Peters compares this man to the mafia chiefs in the USA like Jimmy Hoffa. Is this really true?

Why do trade union officials behave in such a terribly corrupt way? Surely they got involved with trade unionism in the first place, like myself, because they cared about the sufferings of working people?

Bill Peters did not really Ppe + January 24 3 10 16. 19 26 12 21 13 20 23 30 SPARTACIST Truth Kit a bo page analysis by doln Lister, published h the Workers Socialis: Ik ague.

pins 2op postage from WSL, PO Box 137, London NI ODD. state due to its class origins.

Civil disobedience and a reformist attitude to the state are a product of the class nature and lack of political direction of CND. All practical activity is judged by the amount of publicity it gains and not on its contribution to building the campaign.

The major and the crucial failing of CND is its inabiliin explain why they become bad. I don't believe you can say it's because they get a big salary and drive around in big cars, because Arthur Scargill and Tony Benn have lots of money and yet they have been the only ones of our leaders who have tried to get people out on strike against the Tories.

classic I think one reason may well be that as young men or women they never read any of the socialist classics like the Ragged LONDON ASSEMBLY: the second London Assembly will take place on Saturday January 29 1983, from 10 am to 1.30pm at Friends House, Euston Rd, London NW1. Called by the Greate: London Council and other groups to 'bring Londoners together to discuss how we can defend, extend and improve our services' . Orgi anisations are invited to nominate up to two representatives.

WOMEN'S MARCH for Jobs: National Planning Meeting. Saturday January 15, 11.30am, County Hall, Concion SEI. All women welcome. Details: Women's Campaign for Jobs, Ellington St, N7. ty to confront own historical errors. Thus small gains are seen as triumphs and major defeats as minor setbacks. This inability to face reality will bring about CND's inevitable downfall.

Dianne Pearson and Brian Scott Nottingham SO Trousered Philanthropist or The Road to Wigan Pier, so they did not really understand what socialism is about.

This is why the LPYS is so important. Because if you can get people when they are young and show them what socialism really means then you can stop them ending up like Alan Law: After all, how do we know that Bill Peters or any other socialișts won't become like Alan Law. it they become elected into High Office?

Yours sincerely, Irwin Alexander LABOUR Against the Witch-bunt: public meeting with Reg Race MP. Sunday January 9, 1lam to 1pm, WEA, Cartwright House, Broad St, Hanley, Stoke on Trent.

LABOUR Against the Witch-hunt: public meeting with Reg Race MP. Chair: Mark Fisher, prospective parliamentary candidate for Stoke Central. Sunday needs your help NOW.

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