SOCIALIST CHALLENGE CONFERENCE:
27 May, Conway Hall WC2 THE HOUSE of Commons voted on monday to give planning permission for the new Windscale nuclear reprocessing plant.
An unholy alliance of Labour Government and Tories pushed the measure through, raggle-taggle opposition from the Liberals, and a few Scottish Nationalists and left Labourites.
The newspapers which parliamentary debate also told of the case of a former Windscale worker said to have received the highest ever dose of plutonium contamination country.
Raymond Miller has been told there will be a E53 lee for the necessary medical an Important matter of health safely in the plutonium state!
reporled the fall into the hands of 'psychopathic terrorists of the Red Brigades ilk." He was way off beam. The real in this danger comes from the state.
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Radiological "Protection' Board refuses to pay: "We see it as a case of civil litigation and not one involving subject lo surveillance.
That's the sort of concern our rulers have for our Lea Abse, one of the lew opponents of the 'potential terrorists'. Commons order, warned that plutonium could easily exhausted.
Already the Atomic Energy Authority conslables have incredible powers: to carry arms at all times; to enter premises at will; and To arrest on suspicion. Even the Parker report from the Windscale Inquiry admitted that Innocent people are certain 1o be And this is only the beginning. If the plutonlum state goes ahead militants of all kinds will be The legal channels for stopping Windscale are As Arthur Scargili has warned: "If It is necessary to po and sit at Windscale and stop it physicaly, so be