ACTION SEVEN HUNDRED people crowded into East Ham Town Hall on Wednesday 29 June to hear Tony Benn and Arthur Scargill speak at rally organised by East London CND.
Tony Benn announced "I shall carry news of this rally to niroshima wuere • hope to speak on August, the anniversary of une mrst use or an atomic bomb.' (Extracts from his speech reproduced below.)
Arthur Scargill said, '11 is no longer a question of war or negce. but of war or absolute annihiliation.
'Heseltine said that the people of Greenham Common are breaking the law. We should say that we support them breaking the law. All the fundamental rights that were won outside Parlia we have ment, not Parliament. Links Jenny Edwards, the for explained why links had to be developed between the fight against ment and cuts the an American official said nee de only Iwo level.
Soviet Union, military and we can use acallisi the economic. We do not want to use the military lever unless we have to'. Article On the same day an article by Professor Martin Schulman, formerly the advisor on Soviet affairs to Cyrus Vance, spoke of "Right wingers who want move step by irrevocable step, the aim be ing to set the stage for an ideologicallv driven campaign to force capitulation American terms or the collapse of the Soviet emDIC. serious economic problems.
Colin Gray, the new head of the Arms Control said 'Washington should identify the Wallis.
emergence of a post-war compatible with western values million American casualties would represent a compatible level.
If this is true it may be what we are really facing is the United States planning to destabilise the Soviet the way i ly distabilised Allende Chile. Perhaps there is a similarity between what bomb.
'We have got to take these issues into the NUrE. the FBU NALGO have said tha they will have nothing to do with the civil defence charade. Now ing out against nuclear We support them.
The rally 'Leggin' for Peace' ON march in East London on September Kelveston Hatch Civil Defence HQ to London Fields.
Rob Highley, speaking from East London Youtl CND, said:
It le the statistics hor provide the statistics unemployment the fodder for wars We can stop the : bomb. This march is part of the fight. need to be. We must keep CND together.
There will be some who say we must tone down our demands, others will say that the direct action must be increased, , but we must keep it together. We must politicise the campaign with an analysis of the real foreign policy of the West which strategy of nuclear rearmament
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'What the Americans and Thatcher fear are not Russian troops but the American and
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