The relative failure of the C.N.D. movement to impress itself upan the industrial workers is a basic problem before the movement — that is if the move= nent is to retain any significance, apart from purely marching and counter marching, With the arrival in Liverpool of Ifiss Pat Arrowsmith as a full time official of the lerseyside C.N.D., a serious attompt to involve tho lierseyside workers in tho C.N.D. movement via a joint C.N.D.—Trade Union committee is being made,
A meoting held on the sixth April was not as well attended as had bown hoped, but this was folt largely to have beon the choice of an unfortunate evening. There was clearly a real desire on the part of many workers present for greater industrial participation in the C.N.D. movement. Plans are boing made for a stoppage on certain building sites at a date to be arranged by a committee clected at the meeting. It is hoped that othor industries will be involved.
Long ago the Fourth International welcomed the Anti-—Bomb movement in Great Britain and made it a primo obligation of marxists to participate in the. movenent and influence it in tho direction of anti-capitalist demands. The difficultiecs in this task are considerable — no more so actually than raising the — level of a reformist working class to revolutionary perspectives — and they have not been helped by those marxists who disregard the extra Parliamentary character of the C.N.D. movement and lovingly submerge themselves in Labour Party worke
Those who in the C.N.D. demand industrial action are going diroctly to the workers paralysed at the moment by the vicious and indescribably corrupt bureaucracy in the Labour Party. If this becomes a rajor factor in the evolution of tho C.N.D., thore could be considerable scope for a marxist influence.
At the moment Morscyside seems to be the only area taking a definite interest in industrial action, but this is a form of action with possibilities for the political education of the workers, froe from the chicanery of right wing officialse
It should also be romenmbered by those who scoff at the initiatives of C.N.D., that the greator the economic problems of western capitalism in the next fow yoars, the closer the war danger and the more vital the question of disarming the capitalist class.