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The Socialist Labour League's press: The Newsletter, Workers Press, Labour Review and Fourth International, 1952–1973. A searchable archive of the scans

The Road to Peace

Labour Review, vol. 1 no. 3, September–November 1952 · scan page 30

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[p030] THE ROAD TO PEACE The most effective answer British Labour can make to the growing danger of a third world war would be its rapid progress in making Socialism a reality in Britain itself. To clear the way for this, we must first bring the Tories down and put a new Labour Government in office: But a third Labour Government must not repeat the mistakes or imitate the hesitation of its predecessors. It will have to take bold and sweeping action to finish the job of putting the working class in complete power and making an end _ of capitalist property and production for profit. A Labour Government which vigorously carried through Socialist principles at home and abroad would become a 27

[p031] ‘beacon of hope to workers everywhere. It would stand out as.a formidable barrier to the war plans of the Wall Street imperialists. Then, even if war should come, the workers in Britain would be in control of its political policy and economic life, and would not again become a pawn and a prey for capitalist interests, pO War and the danger of war cannot be completely averted so long as capitalism prevails in major countries. The — efforts of the working masses to replace that predatory power with their own is therefore identical with the anti- war struggle. Our most effective way of overcoming the war- makers here is to carry forward the struggle for socialism in Britain as an integral part of the world working class movement against capitalism. International Socialism holds out the only hope for peace.

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