reports.
"Une affaire Murdoch à la francaise" NE had no sooner stepped ofi | International links will have to be the train at the Gare du Nord station than we met Paris printworkers leafletting the public about a threat to 1,000 print jobs in the area.
Apparently,
"Imprimerie Moderne de Paris" and "Cino del Duca" plan to close their Paris printworks and open up together and with a third firm -Paul Dupont Noyon (Oise
works which have been modernisation. The leaflet made the French steel industry in Lorraine and blamed the government for having a master plan community destruction unemployment. Recgonise the
The leaflet, printed by the CGT branch in the Del Duca works ended by delcaring that they would not
"une affaire Murdoch à la Exactly what they are going to do to prevent this was not made clear. But obviously they knew about Murdoch and they understand about French government strategy to encourage attacks against workers' communities - and that ths strategy
common to all European
then is the European discuss these problems? Every day the managers of multinationals phone each other up long distance and jet set to high level meetings - why
Crank and file trade union militants make their own connections?
During the miners' strike, British miners who travelled abroad because people recogised that the miners were fighting on behalf of the working class against the class enemy
Tis well organised and problem of course is that there is no class solidarity — the leaderships of the Social Democratic parties and the
Stalinists do not hve a class struggle or internationalist
One of the strengths of the END Convention in this repect is that the Independent Peace Movements have been formed as protest movements outside the party political arena and their natural inclination is to make links with other protest movements and struggles of the oppressed. Most of the paticipants, especially the spokespeople from
Tor Communist Parties who have after all betrayed so many times in the past. An example was the very professional speech to representing the NEC of the British Labour Party's anti-nuclear policy and promised enthusiastically that it French chair caught the mood of the Convention when she said, we ought to keep Audrey here in France as a hostage until after the British election and the policy is actually implemented."
Ron Todd's letter was an invitation to representatives, particularly trade Spring to be hosted by the GWU to discuss arms conversion
seen by leaders of the 1 British END industries involved worr Britain over half a million workers are
gaged in the weapons in dustry. I
e same time 390,000 workers hav alone over the last few years and this proposed updating of UK "defence" systems into the hi-tech area. the cancellation
Othe issue of the socialist transformation of society how else can one control the arms industry plus develop a non-nuclear Socialist Viewpoint No. 13 July 1986 p26
E U PE ÉVRY • 1986 energy policy without controlling the means of production. Ron Todd's interesting, along the same lines as plans — but it does not tackle the central question of ownership. If the next Labour government does not tackle that question it will not be abe to implement its non-nuclear defence
A Dutch delegate whose IKV Peace branch had collected money for the miners on the streets of The Hague asked me what Ron Todd's attitude and that of the Labour Party had been "Less than enthusiastic", , she said, they did not fully support the miners government policies of unemployment and nuclear power how are they going to get rid of a hundred American bases?"
The answer is of course that they
- as Spanish participants pointed out from their experience
their Socialist Party election he was aginst NATO — after the election he supported NATO and allowed US bases in Spain to be used during the bombing of Libya.
Once again the END Convention shows the need as well as the base for building an struggle socialist movement. Polish THE Polish Independent Peace Marek Adamkiewicz, who was jailed for refusing to do military sendong backatie id my identification papers
On Feburary 19, 1986, two leaders of WiP, Jacek Czputowicz and Piotr Niemczuk, were arrested in Warsaw and accused of belonging to a
SOS TAAITI pacifists oppose Bujak arrest
THE reason the French Peace Group CODENE hosted the 5th Convention was to give it a boost since it is only weak. Why this is so became clear straight away, when it was announced that the British END President Peter Crampton and
This car had beer stopped at Dieppe docks on his way to the Convention and detained.
He was accused of introducing subversive literature into lamely copies of the "Denuclearise the Oceans" which referred to French testing in the Pacific Ocean. The END bookstall was thus including Peace badges and T-shirts. Attempts to protest to media were met with a blank wall. This wall of course included French Communist Party and French Socialist Party which both support the French independent deterrent and the expansion French Peace Morehen tore the French step. The press in the rest of Europe carried the story of the Dieppe arrest, but not in France. The same blanket of silence was the response to the Chernobyl disaster — no mention of the nuclear clouds floating over criminal organisation. Messages support for these two comrades were sent to the END Convention from Solidarose a road and the Charter Lech Walesa, Jacek 77 Group in Czechoslovakia.
Like the other Eastern Independent Peace Movement, WiP stresses that there can be no peace in the world without democratic rights. The WiP Manifesto states:
"There can be no peace where there are systems of state repressions and ideologicl coercion, individuals are denied independence and initiative.
And later: "No action against war can be eitective as long as we do not oppose political systems survive by practising violence against their own citizens.
In addition to stressing human
ABSOLUTELY SAFE! France book atomic bomb France — after all, France gets 65% of its electricity from nuclear power. impounded, The attention to the END Convention, the French held elsewhere in Europe. the nuclear of hundred and Tahitian people are at this moment in French every Band no dire a de french pao alien Franteen and die in France. come medical statistics on the cases leukemia and cancer in the area. of rights in Poland, WiP also supports the fight for human rights throughout the world and in particular the rights NSSZ the death penalty. They also support those fighting for national liberation Europen and for minority cultural rights. fighters for peace, incarcerated in their countries jails Nelson where their of course many others. Zbigniew Bujak which June on internal undermine the Socialist Viewpoint No. 13 July 1986 p27
together fron.: ATOMIX Polynesia. French mass media paid no unlike every other END Convention
Oscar Temaru, Mayor of Faa'a in after Tahiti, spoke of the terrible effects of French nuclear testing on the health and lives of Polynesian people. Iwo
fifty seriously ill flowers hospitals being tested for Warrior" lanket of silence by the French media - and still there are no
Cof of political prisoners and an end to
n opening the first session, the chairperson paid tribute to three workers'
- these are Mandela in South Africa, Mahmut Dikerdem in Turkey and Zbigniew Bujak in Poland. There are
generations a leader of Solidarnosc NSZZ, living inderground since 1981 was arrestec blocs"
1 and charged with subversive activities threatening to
constitutional working class. government of Poland. Last January
So much so that Oscar has put
Tan exhibition which he transports in a lorry from town centre to town centre in France to get the message across. In Lyons the exhibition was vandalised by the fascists. The links have become clear to Oscar — it is not just a question of nuclear weapons, it is also a fight against racism and a fight for the independence of Tahiti and other territories from French colonisation.
At the moment the Tahitian economy is 90% dependent on the French army. Traditional ways of life - fishing and agriculture - have been destroyed. There have been the effects of at least 50 Chernobyls in
The people are never informed about when and where the tests are to take place. They were never asked what they thought about the French starting tests in Polynesia
leaving the Sahara when Algeria gained independence. The Tahitians had welcomed the French with garlands of flowers, in fact they received everyone with garlands of
- that hospitality has been betrayed. Their friends from Green Peace had had their ship "Rainbow
sunk by the French secret service in Auckland harbour. The struggle is a bitter one, but Oscar Temaru promised that his people would fight to the bitter end. Zbigniew made the link between freedom and peace. He said: "We vant a peace which rests on the respect of peoples and human rights the recognition of nationalities and the freedom of culture."
In Western Europe, Social Democratic governments sell out the
interests before the International Monetary Fund and its NATO war machine.
In tastern Europe, Stalinist governemnts repress the basic righs of the workers and threaten future
with bureaucratic disasters like Chernobyl.
END's demand to go "beyond the
Tis only a first step; it is necesary to discuss how to go beyond the established mass parties of the
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The right wing of the labour movement has been getting away with murder: policies and principles have been slaughtered. Kinnock, Hattersley and a cabal of union bureaucrats have been setting the agenda and setting the pace towards a new witch-hunt.
New alignments have helped the "new realists". Urging on the process of ditching and diluting Labour's policies have been:
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But beneath the thin veneer of "new" politics lurks the same old reality: Kinnock's gang are limbering up for a period of Wilson-style Labour government pledged to capitalist policies, and certain to attack the working class.
We can't yet stop the careerist bandwagon which Kinnock is driving, or stop some former left wingers jumping aboard. But we don't have to concede the initiative to the right wing.
We can begin to organise the hard left to fight back in defence of socialist policies, class struggle methods, and the demands of the oppressed.
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