Labour: the way forward

conference last HE They are certainiy socialist David Todd the witch-hunt The hope coming of forcing him to | jive submittı d to conference dele- Socialists. period lies with the youth and once again Whip since they are gates the current issue of the The not with the fake Lefts of compromised with his paper exposes a state of Tribune who, on the day that anti-Tory The Brighton affairs at the Young Socialists not the Keep Left appeal should feeling of and file of could, however, Conference that remains the have been debated, came in the movement can be ex- end of the retreat answered, the by officials open attack on the paper. ploited for Scarborough. The cerned. The days when Tribune's wing expected that Many proud boast was that it camThe NEC paigned for freedom and Common Market was fraud cracy inside the Labour are over. paper is The fakery. This managed by people who have the reason for this is that the no real principles to fight for, on the : urface giving the im- Before Keep Left Right wing have no answer. people who are and of the struggle. cynical tired was proof a major difference The fight against the scribed they refused to hold an Labour the enquiry although the paper says scription of Keep Left and Tories, that the British mono- nothing they were asked to do so. At the conference they refused number of youth leaders, threatened expulsion should of a movement interested in resurgence of to accept an appeal on behalf of be utilised to spark off a Marxism. Tribune is worried poly capitalists should get national campaign to put teeth the paper, although they are that its circulation will be best possible deal from constitutionally required to do into the struggle against 'guilt seriously affected by such papers 'six' they enter. SO. Now the matter goes t ack by association' and bans and as Keep Left—a fear which may = had nothing the constituencies proscriptions. well be justified. with socialist There are, in fact, indications It is necessary to bare lay The fake Lefts lined up last such a Left wing, although bureaucratic workings of Trans- week with the witch-hunters. not yet Marxist, beginning to port House. We understand At long last those people who show itself in the youth move- It worthwhile noting that there is some concern that posed as militants have shown unemployment the in particular, and in some alliance which exists between the full-time officials are going where they really stand in the increase and several indus tries unions and constituency the Daily Worker and Transport to be weakened as a result of struggle. Much of the conthreatened with closure, all The proscription of the House on this issue. On paper the exposures in th current fusion has been cleared away. talk of nationalisation was youth paper Keep Left, is the Communist Party talks issue of Keep Left. Some of Brighton 1962 could be the dropped. Instead the confer- fiasco for the Right wing and about the fight against bans and these people should not be beginning of a new seriouslyence discussed how best full-tir ne officials. proscriptions but in practice it weakened but expeller if based socialist Left wing in advise the Tory capitalists has been remarkably quiet Mr. Todd is true. the Labour Party. the conduct of their business.

Thus, Mr. Gaitskell succeeded in obtaining a suitable cover for an election campaign for which he has no policy.

He is not worried about of opposition on few strategic supplies to The Cuba. members' interests. extreme Right. He has stepping up definition of 'strategic materials' The aid, both military ceeded, with the assistance efforts to tighten the economic used by Washington is notoriously economic, which the Cubans have the fake Lefts and Tribune, stranglehold on Cuba. Pressure wide. A joint Congressional com- enabled them to defy the attacks received from the USSR, has rallying the Left behind him. on the allies of American im- mittee last week recommended of US big business. But increased It is, atter all, this Lett which 11 ... r. 1• perialism off trade with to cut that all foreign aid be cut off dependence on these supplies will do the donkey work for the the island has ber n intensified. from any country allowing carries with it the danger of election, and Gaitskell is con- An 'informal' gathering of strategic goods to go to Cuba. political pressure from Khrushchev scious that Labour's election South American diplomats met The British government, while for more 'responsible' policies to machine is in bad shape in Washington on October 2 to declaring its sympathy with the be followed.

aims of US policy, is still object- The UN speech consider a memorandum from ing to some of these proposals. President Dorticos is Secretary of State Dean Rusk.

Greek shipowners, however, who of the possibility of such Right wing This demanded new restrictions are responsible for carrying Dr. Dorticos declared his governhave demonstrated they that shipping and trade, as well Cuban trade than any ment had no intention of spreadhold complete sway over the as intensified security pre- Western country (Britain comes ing revolution to the South political fortunes of the Labour cautions against Cuban 'infiltra- second) have now decided to stop American mainland, or of taking Party. The fake Lefts remain tion' in Latin America. chartering ships for this purpose. action against the US naval base at Gaitskell's mercy. The five Washington's fear of other parts These attempts to starve out the at Guantanamo. This cannot be increased until Independent Labour MPs of South America following the Cuban revolution must be fought The Cuban Revc lution must not an incentive is provided for the still without the Whip Cuban example is an important by all sections of the world be allowed to be as a bar- used agricultural workers in the shape likely to remain SO Gaitskell factor in Kennedy's actions. aggressive leaders, like Joseph Curran of the Labour movement. union National Maritime Union, who Those gaining counter between Kennedy and the Soviet bureaucracy. Assistance from the in any deal (things which of tangible goods consumer commonplace tives of NATO countries are being called into State Department talks At the same time, representa- support the imperialists moves, are not only hitting at the Cuban international Labour movement is vital if the revolution is to to workers countries) in for their the capitalist people but are betraying their own saved. work. on this question. They have heard demands that shipping These trends nsense should be stopped from carrying of Khrushchev's promi about goods to and from Cuba. communism by 1980. Soviet All US ships, including those economy is crippled by the need owned by American firms but for arms production to defend sailing under 'flags of convenience' the USSR against the imperialof other countries, are to be pre- Other articles include: Art & Revolution by Trotsky; What Imper- ists. Despite all its tremendous vented from carrying any kind of ialism ; New Trends in Imperialism; book reviews. advances its future is therefore cargo there. The Americans propose to prohibit the use of as dependent on the as ever American ports to the ships of a Price 2/6 (post paid) international country if one of vessels takes

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