—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

Ne conflict, which was opened in 008

Te the United States by Wallace, swt 4 and which is being powerfully A by waged by the Soviet representa- As tives in the United Nations and A R. was given impetus on a world a ALME basis by Stalin’s public state- z P ments, is extending on a major Zz puTte scale in this country also. Z Things are moving. They will Z pacnsed have to move faster to meet A 4809 rom the urgency of the situation. A a L Z 2. i S mon ' ELVE months ago the

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.

QU

SEE

: the

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

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: 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 ©