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LABOUR REVIEW

By Tom Kemp

The Newsletter, vol. 4 no. 143, 19 March 1960 · scan pages 6, 7

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‘You're forgetting the boom,’ said Keith Dickinson; ‘the mass of workers believe they “never had it so good”.’

What should we do? he asked, and answered: ‘The left wing of the party must educate themselves’ and ‘must see capitalism as it really is.’

He followed this with a rhetorical question: ‘Who are we to predict which way the Labour Party will go?’

The speaker was neither so vague nor indefinite, however, in his declarations on the Socialist Labour League. The League was a new party and an ‘embarrassment’.

He defended the action of himself and his friends, supporters of ‘Socialist Fight’ in the Liverpool Trades Council. A few months ago, supported by the right wing, they put forNew Format — Reduced price... Is. 6d.

Contents include :— Behind the Rail ‘Settlement’

Statement by the Editors Politics of Prosperity and Depression Tom Kemp Freedom and Revolution Alasdair MacIntyre Lessons of the Dining Car Strike Brian Arundel . Building the Bolshevik Party Brian Pearce

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