Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group at CND Conference

Rae Street at the CND Conference

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Members of Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group played a prominent part in last weekend's national conference of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, held at the Arlington Conference Centre in London.

Rae Street moved a resolution which called for an immediate end to NATO exercises and war games involving nuclear capable weaponry and in particular demands that the UK government refuses to deploy cruise missiles and nuclear capable aircraft on its territory.

Pat Sanchez moved a resolution from Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group which highlighted ‘the extreme and unacceptable dangers posed by the risk of accidental launches of nuclear missiles, systems failures, accidental collisions and unsafe behaviour by members of submarine crews’ such had been exposed by whistleblower submariner William McNeilly in his report 'Disaster Waiting to Happen’.

Both resolutions were passed by the conference, which involved CND members from across all parts of Britain.

Pat Sanchez said: "I was very pleased that the resolution from Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group passed unanimously.

“It is essential that we recognise both the immoral waste of public money involved in funding a nuclear weapons system and that we understand and expose the horrific consequences that would result for us all from any use of those nuclear weapons, whether intended or accidental."