The nuclear cuts announced by George Bush - the standing down of nuclear bombers and the scrapping of some missiles • are motivated by America's urgent need to save cash. The US budget deficit is forcing a reorganisation of US military forces worldwide.
There is no unilateral nuclear disarmament on the part of the US. All the most modern and devastating US strategic weapons, especially submarine-based weapons, stay intact. This poses difficulties for the Soviet Union in matching the cuts, since its own missiles are mainly land-based, of the type being scrapped by Bush. And there is no proposal to do away with Star Wars.
Bush wants the US military to be 'leaner and fitter' - but still capable of rapid intervention in world scale JUNK UNILATERALISM promised Peter well, he said, but • to the Clearly the current purge is the third world, and utterly dominant on a But that is where the difficulty lies for the US. In the battle for dominance among the imperialist powers, America has played the military card heavily. It hopes to maintain its world leadership role through military power, BIN RENATIONALISATION the SM Trade Union CommitWing military supremacy. nuclear power. good place to start. KEEP TORY ANTI-UNION LAWS Mr Kinnock's Showcase but also want to see a even though it is declining economically compared with Germany and Japan. The quandary is how to make the reductions in expenditure while keepIn any case, this is not the dawn of a non-nuclear future. It is especially not a new dawn in Britain. The differences between Labour and the Tories on defence have narrowed to almost nothing; the 'peace dividend' is not available under a Neil Kinnock government. Both the Tories and Labour want Britain to be a small country which wields a big stick; especially having the prestige of being a Socialists must seize on the new world situation to push forward the demand for massive reductions in arms spending. The campaign for an 80 per cent cut in the defence budget is a KICK-OUT THE LEFTIES Labour"