organisation like the JCR In this context, al. which was very active in the moverent, which had several members in the CAGNO O LIC movement, could not behave exactly like an organisation intervening •i asuoiy orovaralusi way from the outside. The JCk was part oi the movement, its members in for the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons' (emphasis added). Try telling the people of west Belfast about the 'coherence of a British 'defence' policy!
The socialist reply to the peddlers of 'socialist (SiC) defence policies' has always been clear — not a penny, not a man or woman to the war machine, the main enemy is at home. Such a policy, it is true wil onv be acceptable to a small section of our class today. But tomorrow, as the class struggle intensifies, it will win new adherents as the course of the struggle itself clarifies things for large numbers of workers mn une same wav lad the role of the police has been clarified for wide layers in the black Commu ules aie dunes! trade unionists fighting tor their lobs. as thev have been on the receiving end of the naked fury of the statt Socialist Action continues with the line of the Carol Turner article, it wil same aeol Suca developments rather than play a role in leading them. which was the only regular Jounai lo appeal throughout the movement, which is anther example of its presence On Wednesday 10 December, the LCR itself also published a special issue of its newspaper for the demonstration that day.
We do not know what Mike Simons means by to argue wnat is to be done next'. You are obviously not unaware ot the problems posed for an organisation with real responsibilities in a mass. movement of this size.
In every local and national structure of the MOvCTICIlL of the JCR daily gave their position on now to continue the mobilisation. This is obviously infinitely more useful than what Mike Simons describes as the need to explain 'the nature of the state. The youth movement learnt in practice what was the apparatus of repression. To help it reach this stage the priority was to talk 'concretely every day on LOC Oo CLu Voo alu alLiuls of the movement. The result is something quite different from what abstract propaganda would have been.
Hoping that you will transmit our remarks to your readers, please accept our best revolutionary greetings.
Claude Gabriel (for the International Commission of the LCR)
This letter to Socialist Worker has been sent to socialist newspapers in Britain by the Ligue Communiste Revolutionaire (LCR).
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