LETTERS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 19 May 1925, Page 7

LETTERS IN BRIEF

LABOUK AND COMMUNISTS,

"Another Communist" writes to "The Post" in reference to the exclusion of Communists from Hie Labour Party. The. writer states that it is now clear to everyone that the " early vnliant advocates of the workers' cause " in Parliament " arc no longer the ' red ' extremists that they were, but are. now the acclaimed sane, safe Labour leaders so beloved by the capitalist Press—a sure sign that environment has begun to tell. Evidence of this is seen in the fact that these one-time practical exponents of direct action now oppose such methods of combating the boss, and.ask that the matter be left to them to make the subject of a sham fight in Parliament, with limelight for them. Again; when'asked for an interpretation of the Socialist objective, they will glibly reel off some Liberal doctrine of social service, thereby robbing the goal of the working-class movement of its throbbing revolutionary ■significance—i.e., the ultimate triumph of the revolutionary working class over all forms of the political btate, and would make of it instead the barest of Libarl doctrines" The " red " objective has been relegated to the background to be replaced by a collation of Liberal reforms which in turn have been the means of attracting to the Labour fold " plncehunters and careerists of all descriptions." " Never for n moment do they divam of challenging—as a genuine work"ers party should do—the right to ownership of the food and comfort producing machinery which the capitalist class now own, and which is the economic basis of their prerogative of political supremacy in our present social system." The political wing has lately had tilings , nw h its own way, but the Communists are now asking " that the class struggle be propagated and that the Socialist objective be correctly explained f<> the people—that the workers and the capitalists have nothing in common ; and that between these two great classes-a struggle must {jo on. until the workers tnkfc possession of the machinery of prorfnV tion and abolish the wage Eyslejn. 'I&e

issue, briefly stated, is that of reform or revolution—white or red—treachery or honesty to the Socialist movement."