—LONDON
URDER will out. in
Foreign Minister .

Bevin’s policy

which is still the policy of

the majority of the Labor
cabinet, though personalized
in the public mind (through
its mouthpiece, Bevin), is being
found out. Recently the Trades
Union Congress two and a half

Million, undeterred by Prime
Minister Attlee’s threats and
warnings, plainly voiced their

condemnation. Still more recent-
ly the motion of the, fifty-eight
Labor M.P.’s, which the test of
abstentions on the final vote re-
vealed to have the support, de-
spite disciplinary threats, of
over one hundred, has voiced
the revolt within the Parlia-
mentary Labor Party.. The Left
has begun to be joined by rep-
resentatives of the Center. At
last the political battle for the
future of world cooperation or

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Communist Party and a tiny
handful onthe left were alone”
in exposing the dangers to
which the government’s foreign
policy was leading. In: the early
months it was an uphill fight
to combat the roseate illusions
begotten by electoral victory
and a parliamentary majority
and dreams of easy reformist
reconstruction, and to awaken
opinion to the ugly realities of Yano
the imperialist policy which was
being pursued. But facts have

% way of justifying a correct
policy.

lectuals,” he was not only mak-
ing a remark whose empty vul-
‘ garity exactly copied the method
of Hitler and expressed the typi-
cal Tory-fascist propaganda of

In the early years after 1933
it was at first an uphill fight

Labor policy was still accepting the benefit of monopoly capital.

land and supporting non-inter-

and a half million trade union-
vention in Spain,

ists at the Trades Union Con-
gress condemning the Bevin pol-

socialism and of peace.
t But through the years of ex-

icies which gave courage to Nak « maére a
ie propaganda.
perience that initial protest of many of the imprisoned intel- brought about this change
® minority broadened into a Jectuals of the Parliamentary

mighty flood which drew with- ‘Labor Party to express. their
in an inch of victory. This time
we must see that victory is won
before it is too late.

_ public feeling,
convinetions aloud, and protect-

ed to speak, from victimization.

; : e best of schoolmasters”

e ,
HIE front needs to be ‘broad-
ened to draw in all who see
the dangers to Britain from the

S extending revolt reflects
the fruits of the tireless la-
bor of tens of thousands of

in each individual case
May appear to the unthinking
Weak and ineffectual before the
€ntrenched froces to be fought,
but which in the final aggre-
gate move mountains.

the ranks of the aritics, with
whatever initial hesitations and
vacillations, are still anxious to
proclaim demonstratively their
disassociation from
and their belief in the old myth-
ical third alternative of Social
Democracy bridging the class
struggle.

the American Juggernaut.

> country, facilitate
When the Tory spokesman in

the debate, Captain Crookshank, :
_ sneered at the ‘mutiny of intel- | These illusions, however im 1,
: -big drum today.

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SEE

: the

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ture Section position, and blind with fury
and fear and hatred against the
Socialist Soviet Union, the new
democracies in Europe, the ad-

Rents Going Up?

: vance of Communism and _ the
Page 17 rising struggle of the colonial
peoples, the leaders of reaction
in Britain are prepared to sur-
Poland render their country to Ameri-
can domination, no matter what

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12 the cost, Munichite anti-patriot-
ism assumes new forms. —

portant and dangerous in the
final analysis, are of secondary
importance in. the present im-
mediate issue, provided there is
readiness to fight. They ‘are only

waged to change the present

who is the friend and who is
the enemy of the cause of the
working-class and democracy, of

has

in Chartism,
but hard facts, '!
which daily shatter illusions and

e . compel receptiveness to truths
ed others, who had already riskK-" 4: first unwelcome. Carlyle used

come in.
present policies of subservience
aan a in the factories and to Wall Street. e
rade union branches during the It is significant that the new Ay bk ets ee
Past twelve months — labors stratum in the Parliamentary
fe which

: through public opinion in Bri-
Labor Party who have joined tain at the prospect of being

tied to the chariot wheels of

Just as Hitler beat the anti-
Communism Communist anti-Soviet big drum

_ to paralyse opposition in every
penetration,
justify intervention and secure
docile allies within each coun-
try, so American reaction beats
anti-Communist anti-Soviet

Panic-stricken at the crisis of

British Empire, conscious
of Britain’s weakened economic

Vo

But the Trades Union Con-
gress proceedings and the am-
endment of the fifty-eight M-P.’s
have revealed that British re-

the labor movement. And _ this
time the development will be
quicker, for the pace of events
compels it. eS

sistance is gathering. The morass and quagmire of
of a minority to expose the endeavoring to set up a barrier immediately aptees if sored “ Social Democracy has cost every
realities of Anglo-Nazi coopera- hostility between ‘intellectu- erga . oes =
tion at a time when official als’ and ‘manual workers’ for »

working-class movement dear.

T IS an irony that, at the Its price has been written in

very moment when Social country after country in letters
i policy, ‘Demo , is going down in of fire: in capitulation to mon-
at face value the peace speeches It was also a remark which : Ee SP eee Dye puget
of Hitler, applauding Hoare as in this case was especially wide It is the experience of the discredit in Europe, its tattered opoly capitalism, worsened con-
the Roice of Britain, approving of the mark. ‘For it was precise-. fight which will finally show record of bankruptcy
the armed entry into the Rhine- Ty the poewrful broadside of two

is being
held held up as a new gospel
of wisdom here.

ditions and economic erisis; im
political frustration, mass dis-
illusionment, and disruption of
organization; and. finally in fas-
cism and in. war, Let us not
buy our experience here at too
heavy a price, when the lessons
are available to our hand. The
British labor movement must
travel a different path.

But this phase will pass, It
is true that during the past
century, since the collapse of
the development of
the political labor movement in
this country has lagged a gen-

eration behind that of the Con-
tinent.

e
to say that experience is “the
though
the “school fees are heavy.” In
the present case the bill for the
school fee is only beginning to

In the closing years of the
nineteenth century, when So-
cial Démocratic (Marxist — not
the modern meaning) parties

- were well established on a mass
basis in all European countries,
the British workers were still
following Liberals and Tories;
and the wiseacres declared that
Social Democracy might find a
basis. in the Contirient, but
would never be a political labor
movement in Britain.

tT the wiseacres look, net
only to the results of the re-
cent municipal elections, where
the Procrustes’ bed of the twoe-
party system still compelled the
inexorable choice of Tory or

Labor in the eyes of the ma-
jority, but also to the proceed-
ings of the Brighton Trades
Union Congress, the mood in
the trade unions, and the new
currents in the Parliamentary
Labor Party and the political
labor movement, It moves,

The fight that is being waged
by the progressive sections of
the labor movement to reverse
Bevinism abroad and its con-
sequences at home, and enter on
a new course, is not only a fight
for the most urgent needs of
the present situation in Britain.

It is also a fight’ for the fu-
ture of the labor movement,
which means the future of so-
cialism in this country, that the
working people of Britain shall
not be the tools of imperialist
adventurism, dollar diplomacy

Today the political labor move-
ment has won the parliamen-
tary majority in Britain; and,
while the European workers are
passing from Social Democracy
to Communism, Social Democ-
racy is being. proclaimed from
governmental platforms here as
the distinctive philosophy of the
British people. :

Once again the wiseacres are
busy | proclaiming that Com-
munism may.suit the Continental
workers,. but will never find a
mass basis in Britain,

“ Let the wiseacres learn from

the record. As surely as the and war, but shall go forward
British workers have moved as the allies of all the progres-
‘from liberalism to a political sive peoples of the world to the
labor. movement based on the victory of peace, freedom and
mass organizations of the work- socialism.

ing-class, so surely will they
move to Communism as the pro-

gram and policy of victory of FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1947 ©