NO, SOCIALISM IS NOT A ‘NAUGHTY WORD” Victory for printworkers would help election fight

The Newsletter, vol. 3 no. 102, 16 May 1959 · scan page 1

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THs is a time for alarm and action in the Labour movement. Labour’s net loss of 322 seats in the municipal elections cannot be laughed off by Morgan Phillips or the smart alecs of Transport House. Though the Tory government is imposing burden after burden on the shoulders of the working class the Labour Party is defeated at the polls. Why? Because Labour’s policy is more and more indistinguishable from that of the Tories.

Read what the Sunday Times says about it: SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CONFERENCE ‘We have Mr Morgan Phillips . . . . recoiling in horror at the very thought that socialists remain even on speaking terms