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1] part is printed below.

N’S FUTURE
UNION POLICY

litt dealt at length with
ortant new role of the
ions under a Labor Gov-

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+ Trades Union Congress
% most sincere effort to
“ill cooperation of all its
~ Trade Unions, the org-
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ITGR’S NOTE: This document is of
m November 24, 25 and 26 the British Communist Party
eighteenth national congress ta weigh the events of the
present, and crystallize a line of action that will
advance the people’s cause. :
P.A. is privileged to publish a summary of the address

Prime political import-

Pollitt, general Secretary of the

Part one of his address was printed last week. The-Sec.

BRITAIN’S FUTURE
FOREIGN POLICY

“Shall Britain go forward in
association with the new rising
forces of the world, along the
path of international democratic
political and eeonomic coopera-
tien on the basis of the joint
leadership of Britain, the Soviet
Union and the United States .
Or will the old reactionary forces

be allowed to influence the La-|

bor Government? Will they drag
British foreign policy back: on
the old lines of imperialist riv-
alries, the balance of power,
anti-democratic and anti-Soviet
intrigue, the fostering of Ger-
man reaction, support for a
Western bloc, intensified trade
war and, as a result of all this
the outbreak of a new world
war?”

That, said Mr. Pollitt, was the
choice before the country and
the Labor Government. And it
had to be said that the present
foreign policy of the Govern-

ment gave cause of great con-
cern and even alarm. Saying
that the future of ‘Britain de
pended more on our: relations
with the Soviet Union than on
any other single factor in the

international situation, he con-
eluded:
“Such relations are’ not im-

proved by decisions indicating
the lack of trust in the ‘Soviet
Union or by “cards upon the
table” talk. The Soviet Union
will never be blackmailed by the
atomic bomb or anything else:
What the Chamberlains and Hit-

lers failed te do, no Anglo-
American imperialist bloe. will
ever accomplish. - . Mr. Attlee

would do well to note that only
one nation possesses the. atom
bomb secret and that nation is
not Britain. No country would
suffer more than Britain if ever
this deadly weapon were used.”

Of the Western bloc. he said:
“The real aim behind such

(Continued from last week)

propagands is a revival of the
conception of the Four-Power
Pact of Munich. ... This policy
creates. misunderstanding and
mistrust in the United States,
for ultimately the Western bloc
is also directed against that
country. It destroys the whole
principle of. the collective secur-
ity of peace. ... The real aim
is the division of Europe, and
through this the revival of Ger-
man imperialism as the bulwark
against the advance of democ-
racy and Secialism in Eastern
Europe. It is this concept of
foreign policy which more than
anything else is behind the re=
cent de Gaulle ‘crisis and it is
to the eternal credit of the
French Communists that they
are fighting for a line which
means the future peace of Eur-
ope... . The propagandists for
a Western bloc regard the reten-
tion of the imperialist strong-
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The British Communists and ;
The Labor Government

vital for their plan. It is not
only a Western bloc but a bloc:
of empires.
GREECE, INDONESIA, SPAIN.
“Britain’s name is stained by
our present policy, especially to-
wards Greece, Indonesia and _
Spain. The Labor movement has -
clearly demanded an. end to the.
recognition. of the Franco Gov-
ernment by a Labor Govern-
ment. The people demand that
the Greek anti fascist movement
shall not a day longer be sup-
pressed by British bayonets.”

JAPAN

“It is also necessary to issue
a sharp warning against. present
tendencies to treat Japan in the
same way as Germany was
treated in 1918, that is to say,
to leave the old imperialist
structure intact, and even to seek
to use Japanese militarism as a _
buttress to ‘law. and order’ |
against the peoples of South _
East Asia. :

INDIA AND THE COLONIES
“Freedom for the: colonies is
the other side to the demand for

the destruction of the last ves- --
. . We are re--:
sponsible for giving every assist-

tiges of fascism .

ance to the national aspirations:
ef all the India and_ colonial -
peoples. .. We must demand and
organize mass pressure to en-
sure that the. Labor Government
shall not use the forces under
its control, whether- British’ or
Indian,. for the suppression of
the rightful: -struggle~of*-these
peoples for their-freedom and in-
dependence from imperialist op-
pression. We warn the Labor
Movement that unless it com-
pels the Labor Government: com-
pletely to change its present:
foreign policy, which is simply
the continuation of the imperial-
ist line of the Tory Party and
the reactionary monopoly capi-
talists, there can be no funda-
mental social progress in Bri-
tain, and that the whole future

of this country is in ‘grave
peril. . .”

Mr. Pollitt here dealt with
two concurrent theories, (1)

that democracy exists only in
the Western European countries -
and in the United States and
(2) that there is a Western: So-
cialism and an Eastern Soceial-
ism. The latter was alleged to be -
based on dictatorship and the
former on democracy.

“The new Governments of Hb-
erated Europe Yugoslavia,
Bulgaria, Hungary and Ru-
mania — enjoy the support of
the vast majority of their
peoples. Already they have car- -
ried out great agrarian reforms, ©
nationalized a number of indus---:
tries, introduced radical demo-
eratic measures and _ brought
their countries into good = rela-
tions with their neighbors for
the first time in history. These
Governments are attacked,
therefore, by those very inter-
ests who want to see the un-
disputed sway of landlords and
eapitalists established once
again, and to use them once more

as bases against the Soviet
Union. ... .
“A country like Yugoslavia,

poor and devastated as it may
be, which gives the land to the
peasants to work it, is in many
ways more democratic than one
like Britain where hundreds of

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1946