A LABOUR WEAKNESS
By Tom Kemp
1959The NewsletterTom Kemp Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Tory confidence in the outcome of the election stems from a basic weakness within the Labour movement itself. The ranks of Labour want to fight—but the leadership is in retreat. This retreating right-wing leadership doesn’t really want ar: election victory. It is content to remain as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. So it has steadfastly refused during the last five years to adopt a socialist policy that would have rallied the working class to its side.
On the hydrogen bomb the Labour leaders are at one with the Tories in all important respects. In the prosecution of colonial wars they are at one with the Tories. On the defence of the capitalist nation, they are at one with the Tories. In the struggle to condemn the actions of stewards in factory
SEPTEMBER 12, 1959 the still vigorous political discussion that goes on in Poland.