THE ceutral target the Labour right have set far Labour's policy review is to eliminate Labour's oledge of anilateral nuclear disarmament. Ham mond, Jordan, Kaufmann and Shore are expliciton this. But we of giving the arg ist' vocabulary, has joined in the fray. JILL JONES looks at Jon Bloomfield's retreat' in the December issue of Marxism Today.
made in non-nuclear to be Kaufman, told a meeting November. the INF had the Since conDuolic ment Dolicy.
ped up.
affray, Martin wrote in the Sunda Times November multiconprocess. "ends" renational more the means" richer and more varied.
Not surprising v then. the December issue of Jacwhen Sues appeared the following week, contained a full exToday, in its usual manner its of the Labour right a 'MarxBeating a unilateral Tenue HOEas a 'nogo" threatening changing scene, BloomBloomfield because it produce has rendered the ture, while multilateralism derided and When this of multiateralismn exacerbated.
Legacy 'Given the barren track and the legacy of the political debate within the Labour Party in the Gaitskell era, this is not surprising. But the effect has been negative.
'For 30 years it had been impossible to distinguish Detween fake lateralists,' writes Bloom field. But 'Gorbachey's new thinking exposed the charade'. ed, Concretenuclear tion (START), There that Labour can a non initiative, he believes, tion with the would expose between onto nuclear But Bloomfield treaty has been sealed In not whole of Bloomfield's 3000 words.
The fact that US nuclea Bloomfield's siderations is more than a mere oversight. Ignoring this *nuclear element' Ine British situation crucial in order to render his arguments superticall coherent. To include it, reveals them for the day dreams they are.
It is undeniable that in situation where US ground-launched missiles have already been taken out of this country, places their removal at its will seem weirdly out of date. Similarly, if
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