As someone who works in the construction industry I fail to see why you are targetting the builders. They are just mainly working-class lads trying to earn a living. This is yet another misguided, middle-class campaign.

Worra load of cobblers mr builder.

Basically you are saying you'd be happy to build there. I agree with the campaign - it's simply not good enough.

As for middle class campaigning, more crap. The working class has no prior moral claim to the high ground here. You are trying to confuse the issue and absolve these 'working class builders' of any moral consequences for their actions, when they are directly helping the state build the next round in the arms race.

If they had the moral highground you assume for them, then they should be refusing to build sites places in the first place.

I'm working class, and I hold these builders culpable for their actions, as with the builders building the monkey torture lab in Oxford. Guilty as charged.

Class position does not remove responsibility for your actions, and it is no excuse for ignoring these issues.

Hi Builder,

Im not a member of this group and am not involved in the campaign but I think it is an excellent idea.

These facilities and weapons system are used directly to harm and kill thousands of people each year and are also the hidden fist behind the velvet glove of the unfair economic system which treats so badly the 'working class lads trying to make a living'.

When we are dealing with these potential and current dangers I would suggest that any anti-violent way people can use to protect each other should be used. As we have very little power over the decisions of the rich and powerful few, physically stopping construction is one of very few routes left open to us. Im not entirely sure how wages are allocated in the building trade but I would hope that if work is stopped by campaigners the lads should still be paid for their time. If not I'd recomend rank and file organising to change that! Either way, I reckon their anger should be directed at the bosses and systems that have forced them into labouring for very little return to construct such harmful things. Cant the companies renovate homes and hospitals instead, or is that just not economically viable?!

No war but the class war!

O come on this is the same bunch of Middle Class nimbys who were out during the Newbury By-Pass protests (Aldermaston and Newbury are within 15 minutes of eachother. This has more to do with house prices than it does objections to Aldermaston.

This is not about stopping builders, this is about stopping
the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons.

Both the UK and the US governements have recently said they would be
ready to use nuclear weapons - this new arsenal of low-yield nuclear
weapons will allow them to do so without putting themsevles at risk.

This is the best oportunity we have to stop those developments.
This is the best oportunity there has been in a long while to put
spanners in the works of the nuclear weapons industry, and to wake up
the rest of the population to the fact that nuclear weapons are still
as dangerous as they were during the cold war.

"targetting the builders" - er no, not quite. opposing the contruction, er yes.

relationships on many road protests like newbury saw a lot of good interaction with many construction workers and some of the security - ie when people had the time to talk. though sure there was a lot of violence from them too.

the road protests certainly attracted lots of middle class nimby types, and it certainly radicalised many of them, which is one of the reasons why the road protest movement was viewed as such a threat back then.

if all you do is say, ignore these people cos they are middle class and don't have the right analysis or whatever, then please go and condemn yourself to sitting up a tree / in the pub / at a computer with a small handful of people who all think like you, and then feel smug that you are the real revolutionaries and every one else is crap - then wonder why your campaign involves so few people - great!

Theres a problem I find with the term "Middleclass", its really an excuse by the ruling class to hide the number of people in the working class. The working class is everyone who earns money rather than makes it (i.e. all wage slaves, no matter how big the wage).

Middle class is a term used to divide the working class into the nice-and-well-to-do's and the delinquent-lazy-dirty-ASBO-targetee's