DEMOCRACY—?

Grey River Argus, 18 April 1940, Page 10

DEMOCRACY—?

Sir,—lf there is one thing to-day to: which the Socialist movement or) Great Britain and the Socialist move-, ment of the world attaches import-1 ance it is freedom of thought and freedom of expression ! The other day we sent to the-j “Dailv Worker.” Communist daily, an advertisement of the new issue oil “P.'ebs.” The advertisement read, 1 “Where Stands Russia To-day? A Debate between Upton Sinclair, the famous Socialist noveltist, and Pro-j fessor Sidney Hook.” The “Daily) Worker” refused to insert the advei-, tisement. | In this country the “Daily. Work-, er” is the champion of what, it would i describe as the greatest democracy m the world—Russia. The first right that democracy has is freedom ot. ( opinion. Are we to take it from trie, action of the “Daily Worker —and this is not the first time it h » s refused to accept advertisements of Socialist journals because it objected o v<-contents—-that all the talk about rte-| mocracv is so much humbug, or is the Communist conception of democ-acy, summed up in the idea that wo*’ are entitled to express their opinions only on condition, that they are acceptable to the controllers of the Communist Party ?—Afours, j. p. M. Millar, Editor P ebs —“Co-operative News, 6/1/40.