The working class of various European countries has appeared more nationalist than class conscious on many occasions, and, on the surface at least, things haven't improved that much. Every damn political leader in the Americas, in North America, and in western Europe talks about peace, whatever their policies and however war-like they are. Even President Reagan is always talking about peace, and clearly the necessity of not appearing to be a warmonger is present in his presentation all the time. It was a very calculated piece of business. I think it is incorrect to overstate the nationalist or militaristic disposition of the western working class at the moment.
Labour parties are now active in the peace movement.
I don't know about that. Some of the largest and most influential trade unions in this country have always supported a campaign for nuclear disarmament, and more of them support it now than ever before. How far the support of the executive carries the membership is another question. Since the Second World War there has been a consensus that a bigger pie would provide the answer to a lot of class-related problems and that redistribution was no longer really the issue. More recently environmental degradation, the division of wealth between developed countries and the Third World, and demands for recognition of rights by aboriginal peoples have put in question this consensus.