Expose the H-Bomb Hypocrites!

M threat of destruction ANKIND faces the in a nuclear war. Such a war differs from all past wars in that initial striking power will be decisive: it is essential to get in the first blow on the enemy's towns, launching sites and warning systems. There will not be years, or even months, to carry through industrial mobilization.

Each major country, separately, or with its allies, aims to have a fully - prepared striking force based on a balanced assortment of weapons.

The technique of war changes at breath - taking speed. Last years' weapons are already obsolete. A fantastic commitment of highlytrained scientists and technicians and research facilities accompanies this arms drive.

Nuclear weapons delivered by ballistic missile, perhaps Let Escalante Lunched from satellit lean:

1 Little or no warning attack; warning time actually diminishing.

No pretence of singling out 'military' targets; indiscriminate massacre of a kind from which all but the most bloodthirsty would have shrunk in former times.

The whole target area will be destroyed, desolated and rendered uninhabitable for years.

The first strike and fall-out effect of an all-out nuclear attack on Britain might leave alive 9-12 milion people. These people would face a slow death from famine, epidemic, radiation sickness and moral, as well as physical, decline. A relapse into barbarism, perhaps cannibalism, would be a matter of days.

The present civil defence effort is ludicrous, a symbolic showpiece to kid people that something is being done. Yet, if it is maintained, nuclear war is being considered as a possibility.

What the H-bomb hypocrites -Macmillan, Gaitskell, Brown sion of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union is an incontestable right as far as socialists are concerned. Does anyone seriously believe, for example, that Cuba could have held out against American imperialism if the Soviet Union did not have equal or superior nuclear striking power?

The possession of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union, while defensible, is the expression of its own contradictions. There are no economic forces which impel the Soviet Union to expand. In fact there are certain circumstances under which its rulers would be prepared to do a deal with Kennedy and sacrifice many Castros.

The political degeneration of the Russian Revolution has left power in the hands of men for whom the bomb is a substitute for the mobilization of the working class against capitalism and a means to push the capitalist world to make a deal along the lines of 'peaceful co-existence' Sq JUST a year after the attempted invasion of Cuba, President Kennedy is once more being hailed as a radical opponent of Big Business. What is the real significance of his attack on the steel companies and his prevention of the rise in the price of American steel?

The administration was especially worried because of the balance of payments problem, which has been troubling the dollar for some time now.

Kennedy had to try to hold back wage increases. He first intervened in wage negotiations last autumn, when he stepped in to stop a strike in the motor industry. ments of one ruling class.

This 'victory' will be used to prevent further wage increases for American workers. The trade union movement in the United States faces a number of struggles with the employers in which the true class position of John F. Kennedy will be made very plain.

THE ARRIVAL in Belgrade of the Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko last Monday is un-