NO CALL FOR ACTION
By Tom Kemp
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AN editorial article in the New Statesman-like Political Quarterly (Oct.-Dec.) slams into the Right wing’s economic policy statement.
Coming from an. editorial board of elderly academics and younger intellectuals uncontaminated by Marxism, it. reflects Transport House insiders and are presented to the party in finished form before the themes are widely disseminated and discussed.
The pull of the platform and block vote ensure their overwhelming endorsement at the next annual conference.
In fact.there is only a semblance of democratic participation in the working out of policy. The result is that many
_ wee a — party members neither“understand nor approve of the policy of the party.
- . _— Loyalty to leaders has taken the place of constructive theught and creative activity. ;
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It is time to bring the operation of the party into‘line with the principles which it professes. Policy changes would soon follow, and the basis would be laid for a tremendous accession of strength.
coe. the fall in production since the carly summer. As foreign raw: materials, énter largely into: British manufactured goods any rise or fall in production has-a consequential effect on the level of imports.. ;
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-A rise in production instead of a fall might have meant a fall in the Jevei of the balances. instead of an increase, but only Fleet Street could consider that bad!
If that is so, if a rise in production even at the expense of a fall in the level of the gold and dollar balance is strength, then its ¢onverse—a fall in the level of production ‘leading to a rise in the balance—is weakness.