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Editorial

Time for policy change

Current ideas that national security depends on being loaded up with weapons and complex systems that we dare not use in order to scare and bully others is not sustainable it means that there is no money left to tackle real problems such as poverty and disease. Why do our political leaders feel they need to be protected against all possible threats even if they dont yet exist? Could it be that they only know how to deal with things by force? Take climate change we all know that weird things are happening to the weather, the ice caps are rapidly disappearing, sea levels are rising and crops are failing. Yet our government is cancelling projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions and creating thousands of new jobs in alternative energy production. Instead they scare and bully others, claiming that they are merely securing work at shipyards and prolonging an important sector of Britains manufacturing base. The world can no longer support this way of thinking. Nearly 40 years ago the workers at Lucas Aerospace proposed detailed plans for converting their production to socially useful projects. This innovative proposition was rejected by the management (helped by a Tory government) at the time but a 2011 university study in the US on the employment effects of military and domestic spending, has shown that investing $1 billion on projects such as clean energy, health care and education, creates substantially more jobs than the same amount spent on the military. A similar, research-based inquiry into economic alternatives for Barrow, where Trident submarines are built, is currently being commissioned by the Nuclear Education Trust. Such an inquiry should go a long way towards offsetting genuine employment-based concerns about scrapping Trident. CND will of course continue to work hard for sane and sustainable policies. This issue of Campaign also contains important information about our annual policy conference, where we will be discussing and deciding on our course of action in 2013, and our International Conference on achieving a nuclear weapon-free Middle East. We recognise that nuclear weapons are a consequence of a failed approach: to think only about state not human security. I hope you will be able to join us in London your input and support is vital.

Dave Webb, CND Chair

UCH of this issue of Campaign focuses on the consequences of government policy in particular, government spending cuts and resistance to those policies. While we see our education and welfare systems being systematically dismantled, spending on defence and in particular on Trident remains high. The sacking of Nick Harvey from his job as armed forces minister may well mean that there will be little or no support for alternatives to Trident replacement voiced at government level. It also illustrates the priorities of senior Lib Dems who appear to have traded a say in the future of Trident for influence elsewhere. This lack of understanding, by all major parties, that dependence on a militarised economy leads to huge economic and social problems is not just frustrating it could be catastrophic. Governments around the world must seriously reconsider their priorities.

Investing $1 billion on projects such as clean energy, health care and education, creates substantially more jobs than the same amount spent on the military.
maintain support of costly and dangerous nuclear power stations and are shoring up their defences against dissent by arming police and developing surveillance drones to help control crowds. They also work to ensure access to resources by spending billions on weapons systems such as Trident to

Opinions expressed by authors in Campaign are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the policies of CND.

Campaigns

For a future that works Cut Trident

Join the CND bloc on the TUC demo: 20 October
ND has long argued that to be proTrident is to be anti-jobs, anti-health and anti-education. Last year the government cut 270,000 jobs from the public sector, including 30,000 from the National Health Service. Tuition fees have gone up and the EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance) has been cut. Meanwhile over 100 billion has been pledged for Trident replacement. In response to the Governments austerity drive, the British Trades Union Congress is holding a march against austerity For a future that works on Saturday 20 October. Hundreds of thousands of people will take to the streets of London to oppose the cuts being forced upon them. In 2009 the TUC called for a Just Transition to a low carbon green economy. By reinvesting the money spent on Trident, Britain could create a renewable energy sector that is job-rich, high on research and development and which generates exports. We have the ability to move highly skilled defence workers to the green technologies sector. Or if Trident were scrapped and the money spent on building houses, 62,000 jobs would be gained for every 7000 lost. Scrapping Trident would also honour Britains commitment to the nuclear NonProliferation Treaty to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction that have the power to kill over 320 million people. For all these reasons and more, CND will be at the heart of the march against austerity on 20 October. We will be dropping banners, waving placards and making noise as we join the rest of the anti-cuts movement in demanding the government Cut Trident not Jobs, Health and Education. Phil Sedler from Tower Hamlets CND described how his group is working with local anti-cuts campaigns to ensure a large mad to be spending billions on WMDs while in the UK elderly people freeze to death in their homes every winter. The only cut Osborne should be making is to Trident. I look forward to seeing all the Cut Trident placards and banners on the day. We want a huge turnout for our Cut Trident bloc so make sure you join us with your own banners and placards. Details of coaches coming to London from elsewhere can be found at http:// falseeconomy.org.uk/travel/uk/all/t1. Lets make 20 October the next step in our common struggle against Trident and austerity. EDM challenge Parliamentary CNDs Early Day Motion calling for Trident replacement to be cancelled now has 92 signatories. These include former Labour Minister David Lammy, who asked parliament Will the Secretary of State explain to my constituents in Tottenham what will make them safer: cutting Trident to fund extra police officers or cutting police officers to fund Trident? The challenge now is to turn 92 signatures into 100. Please write to your MP or use the tool on the CND homepage to persuade him/her to scrap Trident. The aftermath of a cabinet reshuffle has left the future of the Trident Alternatives Review looking uncertain. The reshuffle removed Nick Harvey from his post as Minister for the Armed Forces. Harvey had been running the Trident Alternatives Review a Coalition Agreement concession allowing the Liberal Democrats to present alternative options to a like-for-like replacement of Trident. The move will leave no Lib Dems in the Ministry of Defence at a time when they are arguing for alternatives to Trident replacement.

What will make them [my constituents] safer: cutting Trident to fund extra police officers or cutting police officers to fund Trident?
David Lammy MP turnout on the demonstration. We will be there on the 20th with our banner. It is vital that we create as large a movement against the cuts as possible and CND belongs at the heart of that. It is absolutely

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MPs are calling for Trident replacement to be cancelled 92 have now signed EDM 96 but this is not enough. Get everyone you know to ask their MP to sign the EDM by using the simple email tool linked to our home page: www.cnduk.org

Viewpoint

The most dangerous week in history?

Maurice Sherlock remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis: fifty years on.

CTOBER 1962. It seems a long time ago now. Harold Macmillan was prime minister and the UK had not yet joined the common market. Marilyn Monroe had recently died and the Beatles had just released their first single. Monday 22nd was a day of pale blue autumn skies. Evening newspaper placards announced Tension rising over Cuba. Few knew the reason until President Kennedys televised speech later that night. After several minutes of unfamiliar baseball scores, Kennedy spoke. He announced that reconnaissance flights over Cuba revealed launching pads and nuclear missiles that could reach US cities. Without mentioning US nuclear warheads in Europe pointing at the USSR, he declared this a reckless threat to world peace. If they were not removed, he said, military action may be necessary. The next day, events moved from talk to action. Cuba was blockaded by the US navy, and Soviet ships, carrying missiles across the Caribbean, were approaching the quarantine line. The British Foreign office was calling it the worst crisis since World War Two. Tension grew as US and Soviet ships faced each other. Yet they did not challenge the blockade and there was a sense of what turned out to be premature relief. By Friday 26th, the Soviets appeared to be assembling more weapons, not dismantling them. By Saturday, the newspaper placards read Kennedy Ready to Strike as Cuba Bases Grow. Direct conflict seemed imminent. This was the Big One. Upon us at last. Sleepless in Salford in the early hours of Sunday morning, I heard a car skidding in the dark streets and wondered if someone knew the war had already started and was fleeing before the first bombs hit. Later that morning the US

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was reported to be within hours of action against Cuba. Then, just after lunch, it was suddenly over. A radio newsflash announced: Mr Khrushchev has agreed to withdraw his missiles from Cuba. President Kennedy has praised what he called this statesman-like decision. The next day the TV commentator Richard Dimbleby called the crisis The most dangerous week in the history of Man. It took years for all the facts to emerge. It had not been quite the gleeful US triumph over the Soviets that the media portrayed. In the last hours of the crisis, Kennedy had approved a trade-off with Khrushchev where US missiles would be withdrawn from Turkey, though this was kept secret and vehemently denied by the US government for three decades. Some credit can be given to Kennedy and Khrushchev for pulling back from war but that does not exonerate the

Kennedy administration. Though the president resisted the advice of generals Curtis LeMay and Maxwell Taylor to turn Cuba into a funeral pyre he knew his actions could have resulted in war. Later, Robert Macnamara admitted that though the US had justified its blockade of Cuba on the grounds that Russian missiles there upset the agreed balance of terror, the balance was in fact not changed at all. The Soviets already had submarine-borne weapons which could hit the same US targets. The difference was merely psychological or cosmetic. So we nearly got into a multi-megadeath situation as a sort of PR stunt Hard luck, guys! Looking back, the crisis had something of a dream-like, almost theatrical quality. It began suddenly and ended abruptly. We went to the brink and pulled back but to many it is a reminder of how easily the world could slide into nuclear war. And maybe not for the last time

News

Nice work when you can make it?

How Rolls Royce makes money from nuclear
Rolls Royce has been the driving force behind the nuclear war machine for almost as long as CND has sought its dismantlement. Famous for its aero-engines, the companys nuclear investments are extensive and growing, explains local campaigner Richard Johnson.

HE Derby Raynesway factory (now Rolls Royce Marine Operations Ltd or RRMOL) was first registered as a nuclear manufacturing site in 1960. Its workers assemble the nuclear reactors the power source for successive generations of submarines. They combine radioactive uranium components with control mechanisms and control and safety instrumentation. Successive models PWR1 and 2 have been fitted to the submarine fleet, including the missilecarrying classes Resolute (Polaris) and Vanguard (Trident). Elsewhere the company manufactures heavy-duty pressure vessels that contain military and civil nuclear reactors, and has operated the navys reactor at Dounreay for over 40 years. At the Devonport dockyard, it installed the advanced Primary Circuit Decontamination plant, presumably to deal with the worst hazard encountered in submarine decommissioning the companys own reactors. Rolls Royce makes money by producing dangerous technology and makes more money by cleaning it up. In the latest twist, Scottish CND unearthed a secret report from the MoDs senior nuclear safety regulator that the existing naval reactor (PWR2 Core H), lacked vital safety features found in advanced civil reactors. The government responded by ordering a new PWR3 from Rolls Royce, giving it 1bn for plant regeneration. The PWR3 is a US design, intended both for the Astute (attack) submarines and the next generation of Trident-bearing subs. Rolls Royce, like the shipbuilding companies, will now benefit from the

governments sneaky strategy of ordering components in advance of a parliamentary decision to replace Trident, due in 2016. The new money didnt surprise campaigners outside the Derby factory the site had been bustling with building workers for two years and its new buildings dominate the Raynesway skyscape. According to the company, the latest subvention from you and me allows it to complete a phased rebuild of the manufacturing facility (emphasis supplied). Manufacturing military reactors is only a small part of the companys investment in nuclear. Its corporate news site calls it the global power systems company and it is doing well: in 2011 it claimed annual underlying revenues of 11.3 billion. Yet success hides many paradoxes, as suggested by the Devonport example. Rolls Royce claims to make major expenditure on environmental improvements especially through investment in research and development (R&D). Much of its nuclear-related technology, however, is focused on trying to make intrinsically hazardous nuclear processes safe enough to be used in engines and power stations. Stressing safety in the face of criticality and death is a common corporate motif. As at Devonport, Rolls Royce creates the dangers it sometimes seeks to manage. Its participation in Trident production makes it complicit in the ever-present danger of nuclear war; its conventional armaments production fuels wars. Its control systems for civil nuclear power promote the spread of nuclear technology, consequently

nuclear weapons proliferation. Its own diversification from military into civil uses is a classic example of dual use, the bane of nuclear regulators. In Britain, it diverts resources from socially useful production. Its R&D colonises universities with research on new ways of polluting and killing. The Derby factory makes its own (probably modest) contribution to radioactive contamination through emissions into water and air and the export of decommissioned material.

East Midlands CND campaigners cutting Trident outside the Rolls Royce plant at Raynesway

Finally, the company is entering the controversial area of robotic war machines or drones, having recently signed a contract with the Canadian government for unmanned naval vehicles. Campaigning against Rolls Royce armaments production is sustained and ongoing. Further news on this front, together with thinking about challenging the companys global reach, will be featured in a future issue of Campaign.

Interview

Dont bomb talk!

Sharon Dolev from the Israeli Disarmament Campaign tells Tansy Hoskins about her work for peace in the Middle East. Sharon will be participating in CNDs International Conference, Building towards a nuclear weapon-free Middle East, on 13 October.
What are the latest developments in the Israeli antinuclear movement?
We have registered as a non-governmental organisation the first time a nuclear disarmament NGO has been registered in Israel. And we have managed to open a bank account it had been impossible to find a bank that was brave enough to give us an account. In the end we got one because the clerk thought we were talking about Iranian, not Israeli, nuclear issues! We have been demonstrating against war with Iran, our slogan being 'Dont Bomb Talk' referring to forthcoming talks in Helsinki to establish a WMD-free zone. We are starting to get journalists interested in the Helsinki talks. We have an Israeli-Palestinian weekly radio show called According to Foreign Sources in which we report world-wide news about the arms trade. Our FM license has been revoked, but we broadcast on the internet, and about 3-400 people listen every week. We have demonstrations involving 1-200 people, sometimes 300 and there are 3-400 people on our mailing list. This may not seem many but for us it is a huge number.

Do you have any events planned for the near future?

A delegation of four Hiroshima survivors is coming to Israel for the first time. They will visit the Wailing Wall where they will post prayers for world peace. And they will also visit Tel Aviv and Haifa to meet Holocaust survivors and meet Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Our aim is to jump-start a discourse about Israel's nuclear weapons. The Hiroshima visit is something of a liability because some people are sure to say: 'Look at Hiroshima, this is proof that we must stop Iran.' However, we need to start talking about the cost to Israel of having nuclear weapons. We possess 200 nuclear weapons but no one talks about it. Even the people who live next to nuclear reactors do not talk about radiation. We hope the visit will start a discussion so we can reduce fear and encourage people to support the talks in Helsinki.

Why is a nuclear-free Middle East so vital?

This is one of the most unstable regions in the world; it does not need nuclear weapons added to the mix. Before only Israel had nuclear weapons in the Middle East, and this monopoly was a kind of dangerous stability. This is no longer the case Iran is working towards having nuclear capability domestic for now, soon Saudi Arabia will have its deal with Pakistan and perhaps Egypt will decide it does not want an Israeli monopoly anymore. The Israeli monopoly has gone and we have to decide how the region will look full of nuclear weapons or a will it be a WMD-free zone? World-wide nuclear disarmament is not moving forward because leaders keep using the Middle East as an excuse. I do not want them to have this as an excuse anymore and want instead to have a timeline for disarmament. When we start moving forward this will mean that the whole world can move forward.

CND International Conference

Building towards a nuclear weapons-free Middle East civil society input to a new Helsinki process
Saturday 13 October 2012

N December of this year, Finland will host a conference in Helsinki on behalf of the United Nations, with the goal of making progress towards a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.

How worried are you about the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran?
Such an attack would make no sense. However if you listen to the rhetoric of our politicians then yes it is right to be worried. This is one of the problems that we face that the rhetoric is taking politicians so high up the ladder of war that they may not be able to climb down. If an attack happens it won't be because it is a good idea but because politicians will lose face if they do not attack. It is difficult to trust polls, but there is probably fifty-fifty public support for an attack on Iran. People are made irrational by fear and the media. Fear is our biggest enemy.

In response to a call by the Finnish Minister Jaakko Laajava, for civil society input into this major event, CND is organising an international conference, drawing together anti-nuclear activists from Britain and the Middle East. Special guest will be Finnish Ambassador Pekka Huhtaniemi and speakers from the UK include Caroline Lucas MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP and Leanne Wood AM, Leader of Plaid Cymru. Other speakers include Arife Kose, Turkey; Sharon Dolev, Israeli Disarmament Movement; Abbas Edalat, CASMII, Britain; Ahmed Saada, Egypt; Ghassan Shahrour, Syria; Arielle Denis, ICAN Europe; Elaheh RostamiPovey, SOAS; Nasser Burdestani, Bahrain; Rebecca Johnson, ICAN; Ernest Rodker, Campaign for a Nuclear-free Middle East; Jasna Bastic, Peace Boat; Rae Street, Dave Webb and Kate Hudson, CND.

Do you face any specific challenges in the peace movement as a nuclear disarmament campaigner?
Many people in the Israeli peace movement do not align themselves with the anti-nuclear movement as they believe the nuclear arsenal is the only reason Israel is still here. But in 1973 Israel had nuclear weapons but was nevertheless attacked from all sides. Moreover, people in the south and north of Israel experience daily bombardments from across the border, so again the nuclear deterrent has not brought security. Most importantly we have to explain over and over again that nuclear weapons do not bring peace or stability. They bring death and destruction and if enough were used, they could cause a nuclear famine and the destruction of humankind. Therefore as Israelis we have to be part of an international movement that pushes for a nuclear free world. That is the only way to be secure.

News

Where is Labour going on Trident?

The government formed after the 2015 general election will decide whether to proceed with Tridents replacement not the current coalition. What would a Labour government do if elected? writes CND Vice-Chair Daniel Blaney, a Labour CND activist.

Building on Ron Todds legacy

The late Ron Todd was leader of the Transport and General Workers Union and a staunch fighter for peace and justice. He was also a Vice-President of CND and an outspoken advocate of nuclear disarmament. His daughter, Bianca Todd, writes about a new organisation set up in his memory. Community Court Yard is a national organisation which works with hard-toreach vulnerable young people and exoffenders delivering projects within their own communities. Our projects include Guerrilla Gardening, The Urban Zone and Social Education, all of which use the principles of restorative justice to tackle social inequality to create social change. In addition we are running a national campaign on 1 November 2012 Hoodies are Goodies which seeks to raise money to address the issue of 1.6 million children in the UK living in poverty. On 5 October 2012 at St Peters Church, Northampton, Community Court Yard is hosting our first annual Ron Todd Memorial Lecture. This is a free event where our national champions Jon Cruddas MP, Bobby Cummines OBE and CNDs very own Kate Hudson will be speaking on the theme of Young People: Crime, Peace & Politics. Our national champions will contribute to the debate on issues that are significant to those who access our services and will explore the link between social commentary and the creation of social change. We will also be highlighting our Buy a Brick scheme, which invites individuals and organisations to buy bricks to create Ron Todd House. As well as becoming the heart of the organisation, this will provide a communal space dedicated to young people and vulnerable adults. We are aiming to sell 50,000 bricks at 5 each, which will be inscribed with the sponsors details, which in turn will generate cocreative rooms on specific themes, including anti-war, nuclear disarmament and peace, providing a physical reminder that actions speak louder than words. To reserve tickets for the Ron Todd Memorial Lecture, to make a donation, to buy a brick or to find out more about the work of Community Court Yard, please contact: Bianca Todd on 07925730772 or communitycourtyard@live.co.uk

ABOUR CND, a specialist section of CND, is a caucus of CND members who also belong to the Labour Party. Labours policy development preoccupies us a great deal, but it is something all CND members should be concerned with. The 2007 parliamentary vote on the subject forced one of the largest Labour rebellions of that administration, and at the next election every Labour candidate must be individually challenged on where they stand on this issue. There are positive indications arising out of the contribution of members of the parliamentary Labour Party to recent debates. Former Ministers Nick Brown and David Lammy have been vocal in their opposition to Trident replacement. Meanwhile, scores of Labour MPs have signed Early Day Motion 96 which calls for Trident Replacement to be abandoned. (Ask your MP, whatever party they are from, to sign it!). However, the critical issue is what will be written into Labours next manifesto. Jon Cruddas, who voted against Trident Replacement in 2007, has been appointed Labours policy chief. He clearly remains reasonably sympathetic to disarmament, but he will not write the manifesto on his

own. In the past, Labour officials have attempted to close down debate within the Labour Party on Trident, with resolutions ruled out of order at conference. However at the partys first gathering of the National Policy Forum after Cruddass appointment, Trident was discussed at a special session. The personal position of the leader, Ed Miliband, is interesting. Although he has not embraced Labour CNDs agenda, (unlike Diane Abbott during the leadership election), he has been careful over what he has said and he is clearly allowing for a policy shift. Perhaps he is waiting on the governments Trident Alternatives Review to report, but members are demanding a debate now. It makes no sense for Labour at present so cautious about committing to any new spending on public services at all to proceed with the billions required for Trident Replacement. Labour CND will continue to argue for scrapping Trident and using the money for more useful manifesto commitments. All members of CND can help by demanding parliamentary candidates promise to vote against nuclear weapons if elected.

Labour Action for Peace

Labour CND works within the Labour Party with another long-standing peace group Labour Action for Peace. A history of LAP has recently been published. Labouring for Peace by Grace Crookall-Greening and Rosalie Huzzard is available for 5 in good bookshops. In a review for Peace News, Bruce Kent wrote: This little book is a great reminder of much that has been achieved.

Book Review Working for peace and justice: memoirs of an activist intellectual Lawrence S. Wittner. Published by University of Tennessee Press, 2012, pp268.

ITTNER is a United States academic, peace activist and prolific author. On the shelves in front of me is his three-volume history of the world nuclear disarmament movement, each one a treasure of research and record. His own story is fascinating. His distant roots lie far away in Czarist Russia, then occupied Poland. The persecution of Jews made the exodus to the United States inevitable. Thousands fled, their sad stories commemorated on Ellis Island for anyone to see. Wittners ancestors settled in New York into what amounted to a self- imposed ghetto. Though born in multicultural New York, the young Wittner thought that the United States was populated entirely by Jews so infrequently did he meet other groups. Out of that ghetto he climbed into the academic world as a historian. Much of the book tells the story of his university union activities. Trade unionists

in the UK will be very interested. Academics fighting for decent wages for canteen staff? Wittner plunged enthusiastically into such struggles fighting the power of private money that now threatens our public services here. This work was nationally recognised in 2005 when he was elected to the Board of Peace Action which united Freeze and

SANE into one organisation. It has always been Wittners contention, expressed in the three volumes mentioned, and many times elsewhere, that our organisations did more to change the course of nuclear weapon history than we realise. This book is an unfinished story. Despite a bout of cancer Wittner continues to travel and speak in various parts of the world, as those who heard and appreciated him at CNDs Council meeting in 2008 will know. There are other US peace names and even organisations not mentioned but those who have been peace movement guests in that vast country will know that even the West Coast does not always know what the East Coast has been up to. This is the fascinating story of one life a good read as they say. By Bruce Kent

Japanese anti-nuclear militancy grows

Ben Folley, Parliamentary Officer, represented CND at this years memorial events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

HE RESISTANCE of the nuclear weapon states to disarmament was a palpable source of frustration, condemned repeatedly by activists at Gensuikyos World Conference Against A and H Bombs conference in Japan this August. There the experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was inescapable. Numerous hibakusha (atomic bombing survivors) spoke up throughout the week and gave vivid accounts of the destroyed cities. For them particularly, patience is wearing thin at the slow pace of progress on disarmament and the failure to establish a roadmap for negotiations on a nuclear weapons convention at this years meeting in Geneva. Much hope is placed in the Norwegian governments initiative to discuss the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. But with the nuclear weapon states getting blamed, there were

numerous calls for more radical civil society protests at future NPT events. The movement in Japan is clearly growing. Seeing 7,000 activists fill Hiroshimas Green Arena brought to life the new surge in anti-nuclear activism in Japan. But such is the energy in the movement that immediately after a three hour opening plenary over 600 gathered for the evening youth rally. It was interesting to note the different strands drawn together in Gensuikyo. Amongst supportive organisations, the New Japan Womens Association stands out as a driving force, and there is also significant support from the ZenRoren trade union confederation. There are broader campaigns too, mirroring CNDs. The strategic shift of the US to focus on the Asia-Pacific region was the source of much discussion at the

conference, with delegates from many countries discussing new military installations. Japanese opposition to US bases, such as Futenma in Okinawa, has grown in recent months as the US ships in new military hardware like the Osprey aircraft. But what is most clearly swelling the ranks of activists is the number joining up since the Fukushima disaster who now oppose nuclear energy. With the first of Japans 54 nuclear power stations switched back on in July, Friday evening protests outside the Prime Ministers residence in Tokyo have sometimes swelled to over 100,000. He has been forced to meet with them and it has now been announced that nuclear power will be phased out by the 2030s. This is a very positive situation. CND activists should look at what is happening in Japan and take inspiration.

Trade union and news update

Trident what cost to jobs?

Tansy Hoskins, Trade Union Officer

HE UK ECONOMY is sinking deeper into crisis and unemployment is on the rise. In August the Confederation of British Industry released its quarterly economic forecast predicting that unemployment would reach 2.7 million by 2013. The government has already cut 270,000 jobs from the public sector including 30,000 from the NHS, with more predicted for the future. Wasting billions on weapons of mass destruction at a time of economic crisis is not inevitable. There is an alternative. Green technology helps make the world a greener, safer place. According to industry surveys, there are currently 110,000 people in the UK already working in the renewable energy sector, which has a total turnover of 12.5 billion. By 2020 the turnover is projected to reach 24 billion and to have created 400,000 jobs.
Israel pushes for Red lines for Iran Tensions mount in the Middle East as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized the US for not taking a harder line on Iran, stating: those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel. Europe and the US continue to insist that sanctions and diplomacy will have more success than a unilateral military strike. Protests continue against the nuclear power station site at Kudankulam Tens of thousands of villagers and activists in southern India continue to protest against the countrys largest nuclear project, after the Supreme Court gave it the green light. Protests have spread as police have used tear gas and baton charges to move demonstrators from the site. There has been one fatality. Demonstrators are concerned about

The seeds for change already exist, as do the necessary ideas and skills. In the 1970s the Lucas Aerospace conglomerate was one of Europes largest designers and manufacturers of military aircraft systems with over 15 factories across the UK. It produced combat aircraft and the Sting Ray missile system for NATO. In the early 1970s, cuts led to plans by Lucas Aerospace to make 13,000 workers redundant. In response, the workers at Lucas Aerospace began to organise themselves. In 1976 they published The Lucas
CND is pleased to announce that two Unite regions have recently affiliated to CND as part of our affiliation drive. We look forward to welcoming more in the near future. An affiliation form can be found in the trade union section on our website: www.cnduk.org/getinvolved/trade-unions

Aerospace Plan a detailed proposal for changing from military hardware to the production of socially-useful goods. The Plan included over 150 viable high tech ideas for alternative uses for the factories including medical equipment, robotics and green technologies. This is the argument that we have taken to the TUC in September that there is an alternative to war, economic crisis and climate change and that CND represents this alternative. A new revised edition of The Great Trident Job Threat is also available please contact CND office on 0207 700 2393 to order copies
nuclear power by the 2030s. Growing anti-nuclear sentiment, involving regular mass protests, made it difficult for the government and plant operators to restart reactors kept idle for safety inspections, and a decision to restart two reactors galvanized anti-nuclear activists. The country's other 48 reactors remain offline. Fort Knox of Uranium sees break-in Three anti-nuclear activists, including an 82 year old nun, broke into what was considered one of the most secure facilities in the US. Questions over the security of the US nuclear stockpile are now being asked. An internal Energy Department watchdog found that guards at the Y12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee ignored motion sensors because they are routinely triggered by wildlife, and a security camera that should have shown the break-in had been broken for about six months.

the safety of the nuclear plant as the area was ravaged by the 2004 tsunami. Sellafield radioactive hotspots A record number of radioactive hotspots have been found contaminating public beaches near the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria. There is concern that some potentially dangerous particles may remain undetected as the latest equipment might miss tiny specks that could be inhaled, as well as buried alpha radioactivity. A local environmental group expressed concern that in some areas particles seemed to reappear even after they had been cleaned up. Antinuclear campaigners have called for beaches to be closed or for signs to be erected warning the public of pollution. Japan aims for zero nuclear power by 2030s A new nuclear strategy to be unveiled by the Japanese government is expected to aim for zero

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Hudson, Jean Lambert MEP, Jeremy Corbyn MP and Hetty Bower speak. CND groups in Birmingham, Chichester and Coventry held emotive vigils with prayers and readings at their local cathedrals. In Liverpool, locals participated in a wreath laying followed by speeches and prayers for peace. Tower Hamlets CND held an interesting day of events which included the films Beating the Bomb, La Bombe, and Threads; paper crane making, and an art exhibition; and Mid Somerset CND also held an exhibition of photos from Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Wells Cathedral for the duration of the week. Nottingham CND held a variety of actions, which included a remembrance bike ride and leafleting, and a commemoration outside Nottingham Council House. With other activists from across the East Midlands, a vigil was held outside Rolls-Royce at Raynesway in Derby, which is the site where nuclear reactors for submarines are manufactured. CND groups also held events and commemorations for Nagasaki Day which included lantern floating ceremonies in Milton Keynes, Oxford and other towns. Merseyside CND also held a documentary film night to mark the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing. As in previous years, our friends at Pax Christi and the London Peace Pagoda organised a touching peace walk and floating lanterns ceremony to commemorate Nagasaki day. This was also a successful summer for CND at festivals. Hundreds of people of all ages participated in Painting for Peace activities at Truck Festival and Bestival, as well as sending Cut Trident postcards to their MPs.

Lewisham and Greenwich CND helped to organise the Peaceboat event at Greenwich

ondon Region CND marked US Independence Day 2012 by holding a public meeting at Conway Hall. Professor Abbas Edalat of the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran gave a talk titled, Why is the West preparing its public for a new war in the Middle East. Edalat proposed that the

West has been aiming for regime change in the country since the 1979 overthrow of the US-backed Shah. He dismissed the allegation that Iran is seeking to develop a nuclear defence as a pretext for launching such an attack, and argued there is not a shred of evidence which shows a military dimension to Irans nuclear programme. This year marked the Phone, broadband & mobile 67th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. CND ices groups held a variety of obile serv e c nd and m , broadba lier with a di eren actions around Hiroshima t phone p Ge coms sup Day to demonstrate their from a tele e time at the sam opposition to nuclear port CND ...and sup weapons and to remind people of the horror and dit 0 cre e you a 1 sadness they cause. we will giv go supporter, spend will of your As a CND London Region CNDs ill AND 6% llent work tb ir exce on your rs ntinue the lp them co annual Hiroshima Day he to CND to commemoration was Call: 0845 458 9040 bigger than ever with about 200 people in Visit: www.thephone.coop/CND attendance at Tavistock QUOTE: CND and AF0267 Square to hear Kate

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6TH 9TH OCTOBER
Cycle the bases in North Yorkshire Part of Keep Space for Peace week (613th October), an international week of protest to stop the militarisation of space. Yorkshire CND is planning a bike ride between the Star Wars bases of Fylingdales and Menwith Hill to highlight their connections with US missile defence and the use of space and drone technologies. At stops en route we will discuss the bases, their connection with Trident, and US and UK global wars. nFull details on the Yorkshire CND website: www.yorkshirecnd.org.uk

13TH OCTOBER
CND International Conference: Building towards a nuclear weaponsfree Middle East: civil society input for a new Helsinki process. Speakers include Finnish Ambassador Pekka Huhtaniemi plus experts and

activists from the Middle East ICH, University College London, 30 Guildford Street, London, WC1N 1EH 10.0017.00: Conference followed by wine reception Free of charge and open to all. n Call CND 020 7700 2393 to register.

New materials from CND

No drones
Drone attacks kill innocent people and prom ote conflict

18TH OCTOBER
Public meeting No More Nuclear Power Plants House of Commons, Committee Room 6, 18.3020.00. The meeting, chaired by Caroline Lucas MP and organised by South Asia Solidarity Group and CND, will discuss the impact of nuclear power in Britain as well as the ongoing struggle against it in India.

CND

HE use of drones as air-borne unmann ed killing machines is increasin g dramatically, the main user and the US is the UK is following its lead. The NATO military alliance and many other countrie now buying into s are the technology. They are currently being used for surveilla nce and targeted killings in six countries: Afghani stan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia Iraq, .

More and more drones

6TH 8TH OCTOBER

Reclaim Hinkley 6th October: March and Rally: No Nuclear Waste Dump at Hinkley C. 11.30: Assemble King Square, Bridgwater town centre.12.30: March through town centre. 13.1515.30: Rally at Cornhill.16.3017.30: Die-in at the entrance to Hinkley Point nuclear power station. 7th October: Planning day: briefing on the trespass and the formation of affinity groups/spokescouncil. 8th October: Mass trespass at the proposed site of Hinkley C. Trespass or support the trespassers by joining us around the perimeter fence. More information on the Stop New Nuclear website: stopnewnuclear.org.uk. There will be a coach travelling from/to London for the Saturday demonstration. nContact David Polden at 020 7607 2302 or david.lrcnd@cnduk.org for booking.

Disarming Trident report: This practical guide explains that disarming Trident is not an impossible task and outlines how this process can be achieved in eight specific phases over four years. No drones leaflet: This double sided A5 leaflet provides information about these air-borne unmanned killing machines, which are controlled by pilots safe in control rooms thousands of miles from those they are killing.

20TH OCTOBER
Cut Trident bloc at TUC national demonstration A Future that works, London. Assemble 11.00 at HMS President on Victoria Embankment. If you can help on the day, please email campaigns@cnduk.org.

nOrder online at www.cnduk.org or phone 020 7700 2393.

Stop Press new book and exhibition Glad Tidings of Struggle and Strife by Llew Smith and the late Pam Smith
Bruce Kent wrote that those working for a better future have always to build on past struggles. Previous efforts are never wasted and we need to be reminded of them. The Christmas cards in our book and exhibition do just that, recording many of the political and industrial struggles since the mid-nineteenth century. There have always been individuals who have refused to remain silent and accept that nothing could be done prominent among these have been the peacemakers. The traditional Christmas message associated with these cards, Peace on Earth, has been used by warmongers; peacemakers have therefore designed their own cards with messages relevant to their struggles, including campaigns against wars and weapons of mass destruction. Book published by Fonthill Publishing, 27 October 2012 Exhibition: Newport Museum and Art Gallery, 29 October 2012 early January 2013.

Peace camps
ALDERMASTON WOMENS PEACE CAMP
Second weekend of every month. Tel: 07969 739 812 info@aldermaston.net www.aldermaston.net

FASLANE PEACE CAMP

Permanent. A814, Shandon, Helensburgh Dumbartonshire G84 8NT Tel: 01436 820901 or email: faslanepeacecamp@hotmail.com

MENWITH HILL WOMENS PEACE CAMP

Contact Yorkshire CND for details. Call 01274 730795 or email info@yorkshirecnd.org.uk

Campaign is printed on 100% recycled paper

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