Was NATO gang jehind Jim's speech?
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-06-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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the interests of the Party, and was absolutely unforgiveable in the middle of a critical general elecShore: waffling on' io duced unemployment and poverty. A variety of such scapegoats are paraded: black people; the THE brutal sabotage of Labour's election campaign by James Callaghan and other right wingers appears to be no individual effort.
If Observer correspondent Adam Raphael is right, the whole move to crush the manifesto's unilateralist position was a calculated intervention orchestrated by the sinister. Labour Committee for Trans-Atlantic Understanding'.
The LCTU, suggests Raphael, has already prepared a declaraton in support of multilateral disarmament ready for distribution as part of a planned right wing offensive after the expected electoral defeat of the Labour Sponsors of the declaration, he says, will include AUEW President Terry Duffy, EETPU General Secretary Frank Chapple and (a man many thought was dead!) -former Foreign Secretary Lord ote wanl The LCTU (which produces a little-read newsletter) is financed by NATO and is closely linked to the anti-communist American trade union federation the AFLCID, which in turn works hand-in-hand with the CIA on international matters.
Among other leading lights of the LCTU have been David Owen, Tom Bradley and William Rodgers, each of them prominent defectors to the SDP.
Callaghan has now plainly taken up the torch as defender of the same reactionary politics within the Labour Party, while Chapple has supported SP candidate John Grant, and Duffy has for months been stridently denouncing Labour's policies and the leadership of Michael Foot.
Interestingly, Callaghan has also repeatedly advocated an "anti-Thatcher' coalition between the Labour Party, Liberals, SDP and 'dissident Tories' such as Ted Heath.
..His intervention in the election campaign has thus served a double purpose: helping to minimise Labour's chances of victory (and thus no doubt pleasing the LCTU's American paymasters); and throwing his hat into the ring as a potential coalition broker in the event of a close result. Callaghan: fronting for the NATO men? labour movement