SocialistAction 1983–88

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

The Day After

· Socialist Action No. 38, 16 December 1983 · pp. 10-11 of the scan · 508 words

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page 10 of the scan

CND ANNUAL conference took two resolutions on the future of Youth CND:

deploring the dissolution of the elected youth committee and the ad hoc appointment of another, the other proposing a struciure for the youth section. The latter, passed overwhelmingly by a less-thanyouthful tries to consign YCND to a tame future under the thumb of its parent.

Its annual meeting will decide only* campaigning activity not policy and its elected committee will be strictly subordinate to CND's National Council The crime it commited! Supporting the 'No More Chiles demonstration in September. Hardly heinous, if you consider that Reagan's war drive in Central America Middle East is the thing — in the here and now to take the the nuclear brink.

The real threat CND's peace was made clear Smith's speech for the Executive.

the newspaper Revolution. he said, 'operating in YCND, who have different aims of those of CND.' And he went on to quote from a document CND claim to have, urging Revolution supporters to Ding of CND to fight the build anti-imperialist pacifist leadership.

Now wouldn't it be convenient the were all of one mind, and that mind accorded with dyed-in-the-step-bystep-approach its parent? If the attended the voutt caucus at conference anything to go by, this is not the case No doubt the youth attending the 1984 annual meeting in London on the weekend February will say so in no. uncertain terms. It's clear that whatever the manoeuvres of the parent, the militant voice of youth will remain. fessor Myers said after the programme a nuclear the deaths of two billion people and 'conceivably the end of the species.

other weary American soap operas.

than immediate death. It's called survival.

else but show a glimmer of holds in store for us, then it did a great job.

was worth my nightmares on Saturday night. YOU CAN guarantee a nuclear war will be much worse than anything shown in The Day After. Prowar between the big powers would probably mean But more horrific or not, the film scared the daylights out of me. OK the plot was abysmal and the characters had the vitality of cardboard. It came out of the same stables as Dailas and all those Who cared about that when the action started? Then triteness was transformed into frightening horror. Being frazzled seems a fate too horrible to think about. The Day After showed that when the great mushroom cloud goes up there is a fate worse Could anything be more dreadful than slowly disintegrating as the sores eat away your flesh and your hair falls out. If The Day After did nothing what a nuclear war I just hope it frightened enough of those 15 million viewers into realising how right the women of Greenham Common are. If so, then I reckon it TUCND News Build Trade Union CND in 1984 successful dustrial against nuclear weapons. ne polnieu Saturday 25 February 1984 TUCND can be contacted at 11 copy) are available from this address.

page 11 of the scan

Socialist Action 16 December 1983

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