Abstract

Break Up the Blocks in Europe

This has been a good year for peace in Europe, but not such a good year for the European peace movement. Organizations and experienced offices abound in Europe, and they are very much more influential than they were ten years ago. The recent Ninth Annual European Nuclear Disarmament Convention in Helsinki, Finland, and Tallinn, Estonia, demonstrated how the wide spectrum of nonaligned peace forces can still meet together in an effective alliance: the Greens, Eurocommunists and Social Democrats, the feminist and Christian movements of the West, with many allies from the Third World and increasing numbers of allies from Eastern and Central Europe. Not only in Great Britain but in Western Europe and in the U.S. as well there has been a general retreat of political forces on the center and left.