Cycl agenda while a resolution the member has found its way to the tina proposal.
Decisions taken by National Council last year have not coots feeling in CNDS reflected witness the ailure at firs back the in CND'S NATIONAL Council lurched violently to the right last weekend when delegates voted to lobby the Warsaw Pact embassies on 8 December — but not to mark the anniversary of the announcement of cruise deployment in Britain December.
A two hour sitdown in Parliament Square wa proposed to mark the fifth anniversary cruise bul Council decided to give it a miss on the advice of the campaign officers who felt it was too much of a strain to organise two within days of each other The decision was taken that London region did not support the embassies event.
These decisions put the lid on a weekend marked by National Council's retreats from campaigning on the issue most central to the peace movement Britain: getting rid of the new generation of missiles.
Council began by welcoming 'with reserva tions' defence policy which commits the party to remaining in NATO and to a 'nonnuclear' defence strategy basea on mcicasca con Wednesday ventional arms spending It was little wonder then that the Forward Planning and Project Committee's reports made no mention of campaigning for NATO withdrawal in the coming y cal.
(CND National Council, personal capacity)
Instead the forward planning report which will presented to annual conference at the end of November outlined the aims for 1985: 'our overriding goal is to convince the majority of the public by the next general elec tion of the case for complete nuclear disarmament by Britain and the adoption of a credible defence policy which does not rely on nuclear weapons. tivists have already begun LABOUR AND UNIONS to discuss calling a halt to TOS CHL CND National Council is proposing a debate on 'non-nuclear' defence annual conference. Deptford and Newham however have presented a resolution rejecting any shift within the campaign towards supporting Conventional defence policy.
One older National council prioritised for discussion at con ference however HOLC including one calling for a national demonstration against i the weapons of the USSR (no. 24 on the interim agenda), dividual member calling La biennial conference TO which would give more powers to National Coun cil (no. 13). A constituWest Region wants to get rid altogether!
Removing a democannual Tale would certainly be a useful first step in any attempts CND's main demands.
A composite resolutior from 19 groups calling fo campaigning against instructing campaign for nuclear freeze, has been dismissed by the ArCommittee With only ten resolutions on the final agenda no discussion O1 planned for for conference has also been dropped.
The National Council's decisions to ignore thi fifth anniversary of cruise comes as a timely warning to peace activists of what's store rans or an event to marl the announcement of cruise's will go ahead regardless of the national Council decision.
groups should give special supporting A boycott of the em hassies event is way to make clear CND's leadership that changing the campaign's aims just isn't on.
Government held meeting on Sunday 14 to priorities after Labour It was decided to hold a conference at the end January jointly with Labour Briefing and to invite the Black Section, Women's Action Committee, Labour Campaign for uay kigns, Labour Coll mittee on other organisations to participate.
Discussions were also held on policy positions for Target Government international policy, policy, law order/justice'.
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