democracy! A fight for unity WfS, on the 22 August. nuclear weapons means that Few socialists doubt that an imperialist war in the Middle East will result in a massacre of apocalyptic proportions. That we have seen open talk in the bourgeois press of using alarm bells should be ringing in the minds of all socialist, democratic and anti-war for-
left have not put the theory of How then are we going to in this country are opposed to the ing it very difficult to participate movement, we see reflected both decline of the women's movement and the fact that a large proportion of men on the build a united and democratic It has to be built on the reality of the situation we are facing. At the present time the numbers of prospect of war, women are find- SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 28, November 1990 women's liberation into practice. within the existing anti-war movement? can see incidents like that at the two campaigns held fringe meetings on the same night, at the of the left only serves to demoralise activists, divide the the last analysis only serves the Clearly socialists should be leading the fight to build a united It is quite simply absurd that we Labour Party Conference where speakers! This sort of caricature and democratic anti-war move- movement and consequently interests of the imperialists. of 'No to War in the Gulf and *US and British Troops out of the Gulf. Quite correctly, CAWG agreed to support all initiatives in Only a few days later came the announcement of the forma- similarly-named *Committee to Stop War in the Gulf. It was clear that this new bringing in CND, the Green Plaid Cymru, Campaign for Non-Alignment, the Fire broader forces than CAWG development involved opposition to the war. the position to both the prospect of of troops by Bush and Thatcher to ces, both in this country and war and to the war itself, if and when it breaks out, is an urgent Ever since the announcement came of the massive deployment the Gulf, Socialist Outlook sup porters have sought to build an opposition to the imperialist war- mongering. Along with other for- ces on the far-left, in the peace Building an effective mass op task facing every one of us. throughout the world. Page 6
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Jonn harris/NuJ tional movement for socialism. The task of socialists is to provide the bridge towards that end. The campaign against war is very much Sam Inman