SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

No to all nuclear power!

· Socialist Action No. 149, 26 September 1986 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 231 words

The scan: 149-sep-26-1986-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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theme at Blackpool this year.

At the TUC earlier this ConTess within a whisker of passing a resolution that demanded the abandonment of all civil nuclear power, while pro-nuclear resolution feated. This shows the real overwhelmingly prospects that exist at parthis y cal passing clap nudear phasing out nuclear power, despite any reservations by the Leadership conference on nuclear power must be a record on recent Gallup poll published in the Observer showed per of Cent Labour voters in favour of phasing out nuclear power, 56 per cent of the whole sample. A commitment to a clear campaign around sulaoolle nuclear power would be a massive boost to Labour's Chernobyl has brought together the opposition to nuclear power which has been the Windscale disaster in 1957. It has become apparent that there is no safe. way to annerate United United States, for instance, no new power stations are on orael, ana up lo lov ex isting orders have been cancelled.

Delegates must insist, in the words of the Nationa! Mineworkers resolution to on 'an immediate halt to the nuclear power programme and the phasing out of all existing plants' and 'an integrated do development ot with creased alternative energy, sources

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Socialist Action 26 Sep 1986

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any issue. Without a doubt, the demand to get ricof all Britain's nuclear power plants will be a central

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