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- INTRODUCTION -
I forget which great male thinker once said the only
party worth living for was "the party of humanity". Or was
it "dying for"? Something like that anyway. I'm better at
"Remember your humanity and forget the rest". That was
Bertrand Russell - unless of course it was Albert Einstein.
But never mind who said those things. This essay is about
why, when it comes to nuclear disarmament, they are true.
It is a vile fact about the power struggles between the
USA and the USSR that they are not confined to exchanges of
military threats, or nuclear ravings, or other manoeuvres,
between the two super-states and their allied subordinates.
In fact, these conflicts have their essential home inside
ordinary, largely powerless and "unimportant" people
everywhere. Far . . .
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APPENDIX
JOINT DECLARATION OF THE EUROPEAN PEACE MOVEMENTS
Launched at a 250,000 CND rally, London, June 6th 1982
Considering that we, of this present generation, hold
in trust the survival of civilisation, the prospects of
future generations, and the fate of the earth itself.
We accept our trusteeship. We dedicate our lives to the
cause of peace.
We reject altogether the use or preparation of nuclear
weapons or of any weapons of mass extermination. We reject
also the arguments of "deterrence" or of "balance" which
justify these weapons and which delay disarmament.
We have lost count of the weapons poised above our
heads and we have lost interest in counting. We refuse them.
We call upon our friends throughout the world, in East or
W . . .
