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A 'CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
Should LABOUR Agree To A Popular FRONT
(Labour M.P. for Ebbw Vale; became a miner when he left school at the age of 13)
Yes
Says Aneurin Bevan
FAVOUR the nation of the Communist Party to the Labour Party. The Editor has asked me to say why in six hundred words. I propose, the therefore, to summariso arguments against amilation and to give my reply tersely.
It is said that the Communist Party will not be loyal. This is an indictment of intention and can be proved or disproved only in practice.
never Anyway, loyalty 13
It comes from ready-made. common struggle and sacrifice. The bonds of loyalty can be forged only in co-operation. Events in Spain underline this lesson.
The Communist Party is so negligible, we are told, that its amilation will bring no appre- clable increase of streng 1 to the Labour Party.
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A more serious objection is that the Communist Party owes its first loyalty to the Com- munist International, and is, therefore, not in a position to be loyal to the Labour Party.
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Oce, stules that many of these (DB2528/9) | men have had no military train- ing whatever, and adds that they would probably constitute the only source of reinforcement in the greatest of all emergencies. One half of the number are in | Government service, and, despite the recent appeal made by His Excellency the Governor, of these only twenty-four out of a hundred and fifty have enrolled in the THEN WE ARE INFORMED Corps and seven in the Naval that the Communists want to Volunteer Force. The disin- get into the Labour Party only My elination on the part of eligible in order to capture it. Britons to shoulder responsibili-readers can work that out for ties which they should gladly as- sume is all the more inuxplicable CHATER ROAD. in view of the fact that there were substantial increases in the numbers of Portuguese, Eura- sians, Indiana and Chinese link- ing up with the Corps last year. Following the request of the Secretary of State that as many oversens Government British en- ployees as possible should join the defence units of the Colonies in which they serve, the continued indifference of civil servants to what should be an understood obligation cannot but be deplor- ed. Indifference, and not studied refusal to enrol, is, we feel sure, the attitude of most non-members of eligible age, whether in the Government service or in other occupations. It may, however, bring these men to a sense of their duty if we point out that the present personnel of the Corps contains many who, on the score of age, could well ex- cuse themselves from service, but who are animated by a spirit which is lacking in many young-
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at the present timè. The work of the Corps is exceedingly in- teresting, beneficial to all who take part in it, and, above all' else, fits those who join to play their rightful part in times of emergency. There can surely be no Briton worthy of the name who would care to feel that, did an emergenicy arise, he would be unable, through lack of training, to do his bit, and would have to shelter behind those who have willingly accepted their obliga- tions. We therefore appeal to all who, no matter the reason, have not yet fitted themselves for emergency service, to join the Corps without delay. By so đo-| ing they will remove a reproach under which the Colony should not labour, and will also have the additional consciousness, that they are not-shirking their duty.
The Communist Party de- clares ita readiness to accept the
constitution
of
the
Labour
Party, with all that is implied thereby. It seems clear from recent events that the Com- munist International is pre- pared to accord greater flexi- bility to its national bodies.
In any case experience alone can provide the answer one way or the other. The workers are becoming Impatient of these objections to metaphysical unity.
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tatorship except as a reply to subversive attempts on the part of the defeated capitalist to re- verse the expressed will of the people.
If democracy is to survive it must be ready to take whatever measures are necessary to de- fend itself. The Spanish Liberal Government, even now, is pay- ing the price of not realising the profoundly anti democratic temper of the ruling class.
The final objection is that to allate the Communist Party would excite the rise of Fascist forces in reply.
This view is alarming in, Its abysmal defeatism. It says in effect that if we lie down our enemies will not need to knock us down.
All recent political history proves the opposite. Where the workers are united, strong and self-reliant Fascism fails to reach maturity.
I support the affiliation of the Communist Parly because I be- the Hleve it would lead to spiritual reawakening. of the British Working-class Move- ment, and would be the begin- ning of a march which would cud in the triumph of the Workers' Cause.
No
Say's
of
F within the ranks Labour there is some con- tention and confusion as to what our relation with the one Communists should be, must not wonder at it.
For the time being our Com- munists have become rather mild unscrupulous editions of the 19th century Fabians.
They are all for permeation rather than open public propa- ganda.
They obscure their own alms. They will even deny or hide the principles to which the Commu- nist International (the OI.) has committed them.
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THEIR ATTITUDE · TO THE become Labour leaders has
more discriminating; for the Communists there now appear to be three categories of Labour leaders:-
1. Those who have the courage to criticise the C.P. For them the whole abuse is more or less continued; their integrity is questioned. 2. Tho who do not love the munists but who fear to attack them, or who do favour the
(Labour M.P. for South Hackney and Leader of the London County Council),
Herbert
Morrison
Communists, but fear openly to support them. For them a mix- ture of toleration and contempt. And I agree.
3. Their friends and instru- ments. For them praise. They have
are they "courage": "brave working-class fighters." They are called "comrade."
But no more are all the Labour leaders grouped together as Fakirs and Social Fascists! For the time being those epithets are stored. away in the cupboard. Why?
Communists claim a relation- ship to the Labour Party atmilar to that of the old I.L.P. which for many years, did such useful work as an affiliated body.
But there is little similarity be tween the old I.LP. and the British section of the Communist International.
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¿.P.O.D. Violent rovolu- Rover-
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COMPARE:-
Du LLP. Boclultan by per-
iamentary
Com-
cracy,
ship.
Socialist educa-
Little or no Bo-
clollat education.
A section of the
tion and Par- tion and sitters-on-the-fence,
A Crop Of Howlers
schools have closed, and the lorn guesses at an answer, long shots termly crop of howlere la being that don't quite come off. Two from handed round. It seems appropriate chemistry:--
to recount a few of the best we hupe
To find evidence of carbon in the come across in the course of our body-rub the hands together and a career..
black deposit appears." "How While it is perhaps sacrilege to make soft water hard-freezeit." attempt to classify such gems of wit
to
At graminar Tommy was to give Ilis as true howlers, they may be divided the degrees of the word "bad."
the symbol into definite groups. The first ta a answer is very plthy-"Bad—very III big class of those cases where bad dead." "Explain writing or spelling gives the effect. LXXX" was the question, and the It is said that amillation
flere are some:--
romantic youth gave as his reply, would weaken the electoral ap-
and kisses." The cookery peal of the Labour Party. The "The Piod Piper promised to rid "Love
to keep milk present line of the Labour Partythe town of rates." The aim of a class was asked how is not so successful in this respect that its authors are chemistry experiment was set out es from turning sour in warm weather, "To measure the capaelly of a ree-All were puzzled except wee Jeanie. entitled to be complacent.
bloke." Again, We are Up shot her hand-"Keep it,in the tangular told, "Some of our great pacts are cow, miss." Browning,
Once a party, modifies its position so as to reassure the people it is on the retreat. It is forced to retire from one weak position to a weaker one, until it dles of the inanition produced by its own feara.
If it does not behave as though it belleves in itself it cannot expect the country to believe in it.
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Keuls,
and Sherry
The final class is the really brilliant "The Duke of Wellington had a big selection, the work of those who have funeral. It took eight men to carry the right idea but express themselves the beer" (bier).
quaintly. A perfect example is the Another, and a large class, may be answer of the girl who had to explain the malapropisms where one word is the meaning of the proverb, “A virð confused with another word like it. in the hand is worth two in the There are
some gems here:-The bush," and who said, "One thing of man who keeps order at a football something you have got is worth two THE match is called a refugee." A proud things of nothing you haven't got." WE
THAT - ARE TOLD Communist Party does not support' son writes: "In the war my father)To be ambidextrous, we are told, is democracy whilst the Labour Party was in charge of a spitoon." "Give to be "able to use hands as if they the masculine. of belle-stornach."
were feet," does.
What some Bayo not recent experiences "Wit is the Soviet?
Here is a boy with political Jean- shown that the danger to domo people call their table napkins." cracy comes, not from the Left, Oliver Cromwell was in charge of ings. Asited to define a rhetorical question and give an example, he but from the Right; not from ani
wrlien-"A rhetorical question is me "Ale is composed of oxygen and which is asked and there is no answer aggressive working class, but from an ironclad." B capitalist class which is no longer able to reconello Its position sanntogen. "An epitaph is a short, to e.., What has the Government with the maintenance of political curcastle remark." Asked for a sen been doing all these years?" And and social decency.
No Communist conceives of dic-tence using the word summit, a bright we are told, "If the Prime Minister | lad wrote:-"When the clock stops dies, who takes charge?-The under- there is summit wrong with "taker." And lastly, a translation of "Wellington, after a long champagne, "De mortuis nil nist bonum” was ren- defeated Napoleon."
dered. "In the dead there is nothi The third class may be put downing except bonez.” as sheer unmitigated ignorance, for-
One Thought...... SONG for our banner? The watchword recall, "United, wo, stand, divided we
fall"
G. P. MORRIS.
G.V.G.
on.
demo mont by dictator-
Party autonomy,
subject to Labour C.I. and subject to Party consitution. International
A aubstantial
structions.
Dictatorship
ind
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degree of branch locals and indivi- members individual dust And autonomy within from headquarters. the J.L.P.
IL.P.
member- OP, membership ship generally ooz- has one loyalty -nistent with loyalty, to C.P. and C..
to Labour Party. Belf-financed.
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Largely financed * from abroad. A reasonably Violent changes LE consistent, under in polloy
by the stood polley; con ordered sequently reliable, DL; utterly
rollable.
When the IL.P. wanted to do somewhat milder things than the C.P. it left the Labour Party.
Somebody may Bay. "What about the Bocialist League?' Well, what about it? There is a widely-held view that it has neither, justlied its existence nor Its aflation to the Party.
I ask you to recall those earlier days when individual Communists were permitted to be party officers, delegates and members, They were not very pleasant days for our best local Labour Party workers and I am more interested in them than the clover-clever people.
They were days of O.P, offort to "capture" party officerships and control; of duplicated, written in- structions to the" fractions" work- ing from within; of reduced in-- dividual membership owing to the domestle struggle between two op- posite policies; of loss of effort and propaganda drive for the same reason.
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I AND MY COLLEAGES OF THE . London Labour Party spont only half our time fighting tho Torics because the other half was taken.
up in protecting the Party against C.P. conspiracies.
I don't want that kind of life again. Nor do the best of our local Labour Party workers. We want to get on with our job of fighting for Becialism and Peace in our own Labour Party way.
Why can't the Communists get on with their different job in their way? Or, if their policy is claimed to be the same as ours, why don't they liquidate themselves and, cease to be the cause of so much. working class dissension?
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-------And Another
"MEN work together," I told
him from the heart, "Whether they work together
or apart."
-ROBERT FROST.