~ Australasian ~ Number 104 Summer 1983/84 30 cents Down With Reag~lHawke Anti-Soviet War Drive! The Reaganites' constant talk of German). So the US, and its NATO called the "peacemaker" by Reagan in exactly according to the Reaganites' "protracted nuclear war", "limited allies are concerned about a "hot a touch borrowed from George plans. As more and more facts about nuclear war", any kind of nuclear war autumn" of mass protest against the Orwell's 1984, is the Pentagon's the ill-fated flight come out, fewer and against the "evil empire" ofthe Soviet Euromissiles, whose deployment will premier first-strike weapon. This fact fewer people believe it was an Union has a lot of people worried, indeed' bring the world a large step was openly stated by then Democratic innocent commercial flight which just especially in Washington's West Euro­ closer to nuclear holocaust. president Jimmy Carter, who pro­ happened to stray 300 miles off course pean allies. Over 70 percent of all Then comes the Korean Air Lines moted its development: "With the MX over some of the most militarily sensi­ West Germans now oppose the Flight 007 provocation, so convenient deployed in substantial numbers, in tive areas of the USSR. In other devel­ planned deployment of the Pershing 2 asa means to whip up the level of anti­ addition to the Minuteman, the US opments, the Soviet press reported missiles scheduled for this December, Soviet hysteria and, in both the US and would have acquired the capability to that Richard Nixon canceled a reser­ because they knQw that these West Europe, necessary to push destroy most of the Soviet silo-based vation on the doomed jetliner at the weapons, which are only six to eight through the Pentagon's war plans. ICBM force in a first strike" (quoted last minute "because the CIA 'did not minutes flight time from their targets .. With bipartisan support Congress duly in Robert C Aldridge, First Strike! dare send a former president to his in the USSR, could trigger a holocaust passed Reagan's military budget, [1983]). death' and alerted him" (Philadelphia in which Central Europe would be the including the MX missile as well as the In the aftermath, however, the KAL Inquirer, 25' September). The West main battlefield (slaughterfield in B-1 bomber and nerve gas. The MX, 007 provocation has not worked out German magazine Quick had reported in its 8 September issue that Nixon had been booked on KAL 007 in seat B-2, in the row next to ultra­ conservative US Congressman Larry McDonald, traveling to an anti­ Communist celebration in Seoul. And He La Lackeys the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle (2 October) reports that The drums for war against the from which even this remote island it "would .have counselled against"). American officials are now crowing Soviet Union are beating in Wash­ continent will not be exempted. Days later, in a panic it changed its that, "Analysis of the KAL incident ington and they are being faithfully Who could doubt this after the "accidental" UN vote for "deeply gives US intelligence what one source echoed by Bob Hawke's Labor govern­ Korean airliner provocation and now deploring" the invasion to an absten­ called 'a bonanza' of new information ment in Canberra. We said this would Grenada? Reagan was so hard up for tion. So Hawke and Hayden don't want about Soviet radar gaps, communi­ be an openly pro-Reagan Cold War international support for his "big win" to deplete White Australia's thin cations capabilities and chains of government, the enemy of workers at over an island a quarter the population defences for a "Commonwealth command". home and abroad, and already we have of Tasmania that he had Hawke security force" on the other side of The Reaganites' wild anti-Soviet been proven massively right. Reagan traced to some sleepy Melbourne the world. But their troops are still in bellicosity in the past few weeks has to heads a degenerate and declining suburban shopping centre for a the US-led. Sinai "peacekeeping" some degree backfired. Three weeks American empire which he wants to fifteen-minute phone call to line him force in the Near East, with Lebanon after the KAL .007 provocation and also restore to its former glory through his up. Even Thatcher and the Queen in turning into a bloody quagmire for after the sight. of US warships bom­ insane anti-Soviet war drive. And the Britain were infuriated - "Marxist" Reagan. Whether they go to Grenada barding Lebanon a New York Times/ Australian ruling class, servile junior Grenada was part of the Common­ just depends on how hard the US CBS poll showed that for the first time partners of the US and also regional wealth. Canberra at first "could wants to push. We say: from Vietnam significantly more Americans disap­ imperialist jackals, have tied them­ understand" US security concerns, to the Near East to the Caribbean, proved of Reagan's conduct of foreign selves to his demented vision. These then eventually screwed up the down with Hawke, he's Reagan's affairs than approved of it. The well-trained lackeys are dragging this courage to issue the most pathetic and man I No Australian "peacekeepers" Reagan gang itself realized that their country "all the way with Reagan" inoffensive criticism of all Reagan's to Grenada I Get them out of Sinail down the road to a nuclear holocaust Western allies (had it been consulted Continued on page nine Continued on page two " -=-~~'''':~'-. army controls eastern Lebanon, is missiles had two purposes: 1) the ogy in social-democratic colors with Russia ••• the principal Soviet client state in the Pershing 2s are intended to increase the support of the corrupt Stalinist Near East. And the borders of the the imperialists' first-strike capability bureaucracy. " Continued from page one USSR itself are only a few hundred against Russia; and 2) they are part of - "The Ominous Resurgence of miles to the north. The liberal Repub­ German Nationalism," unrestrained warmongering rhetoric the Pentagon's strategy for an anti­ Spartacist (English edition) was getting them into trouble. lican head of the Senate Foreign Soviet war to be fought out in the no 35, Autumn 1983 According to a senior White House Relations Committee, Charles Percy, European "theater". The West But the legitimate fear of nuclear official, there was concern that "we who voted for the War Powers Resolu­ Germans, already frightened by annihilation and national sentiments of were beating the drum too loudly and tion, nonetheless recognized: "I don't American scenarios for "limited" the German masses can be mobilized that it was time for Ronald Reagan, the think any of us know where this is nuclear war on Schlachtfeld Deutsch­ on a communist program. The TLD peacemaker, to consolidate his image" leading. It could lead to direct conflict land were "aghast" last week when calls for the revolutionary reunification (New York Times, 30 September). with Syria or direct conflict with the the US armed forces paper, Stars and of Germany as the motor for a United Soviet Union" (New York Times, Stripes, reported that an American Socialist States of Europe. So speaking before the UN on 24 September). The Marines in army unit was practicing mass burial September 26 Reagan offered a new And the missiles can be stopped, "disarmament" proposal. The US though not by human daisy chains would deploy fewer Pershing 2s than and civil disobedience, popular refer­ now planned if the Russians would enda and similar petty-bourgeois dismantle and destroy some of their pipe-dreams. What is necessary is SS-20 missiles already deployed in the mobilization of the powerful Europe. In other words, Reagan German proletariat against the anti­ demanded, as usual, the unilateral Soviet war drive. While the "peace disarmament of the USSR combined movement" is going through the with a buildup of the NATO nuclear motions with impotent mass demon­ arsenal, which already includes the strations against the Pershing and French and British medium-range cruise missiles scheduled for the end missiles and US submarine-launched ,. of the month, the German Trotskyists missiles in European waters. The demand: "Stop NATO First-Strike Russians naturally rejected out of hand Weapons with Workers' Strikes!" this "peace move", intended to (Spartakist. October 1983). The call for radically alter the nuclear balance of, labor action against the missiles is not forces in favor of US imperialism. .., , a cry in the wilderness, moreover. Thus for the upcoming congress of the Andropov reminded the world in his Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov exposes Reagan's lies In Moscow press confer­ reply to Reagan, "The Soviet state has Metal Workers Union, some 58 ence, September 9. In his speech Marshal Ogarkov stated: "The Soviet resolutions have been proposed on successfully overcome many trials, armed forces, standing guard over the peaceful work of the Soviet people, including crucial ones, during the six the issue of the rockets, including constantly are In high combat readiness. Throughout the history of the several advocating work stoppages. and a half decades of its existence", Soviet State they have been discharging their duties with honour. In and he went on to affirm: (The union tops' response is for a future, If need be, they will also perform their combat tasks." 5-minute "warning strike"!) In "The Soviet people can rest assured response the TLD has raised the that our country's defense capability Lebanon are yet another tripwire for procedures. Accompanying photo­ demand for a two-day general strike is being maintained at such a level World War III. graphs showed bulldozed graves against the deployment of Pershing that it would not be advisable for The acute danger of World War III is similar to those the Nazis used for the and cruise missiles.