Jan, 20, Although reference has already been made to the movement amongst extreme Socialist and Labour groups in Britain to coalesce into a triple alliance for the pur pose of combatting Fascism, opposing rearmament, adopting a common policy on the recruitment of volunteers and the conclusion of a treaty between Britain, France and Soviet Russia, the matter Is of sufcient importance to warrant further mention, The scheme which is fostered by such people as Sir Stafford Cripps, who. has been disciplined by the Labour Party for certain recent indiscreet utterances is in fact a Communist—Independent Labour Party—Socialist League alliance on lines which are wearily familiar to those who have watched similar developments the Labour Party during the Inst few yet There was first the Minority Movement, then the "United Front of 1928-29, the Cook-Maxton campaign, the LIP. seces-ion in 1931, the Communist United Front" of 1935-36 and now this triple Alliance, This latest movement is no more important than the others and merely ranks as another rebellion against the present leadership of the Labour, Party. It is to be believed that if will secure no greater permanence than the previous movements and that after a comparatively short time the cohesion, which is being attempted at the moment, will dis~ appear and the three parties again become independent of each other. The leaders of this present secession claim to represent the rank and file of labour in some deeper sense than the present party leaders, but when It comes to as~ sessing the accuracy of the claim in terms of figures, it is found that the Triple Alliance can command no more than 20,000 members, which is ludicrously small as compared with the total strength of the Labour Party.
It is Inevitable in a country like presentations now made to it, Council, as Mr. Arnhold rightly The Great Britain, where the greatest possible freedom is permitted, that observed last month in the speech there should be found people at referred to above, is exclusively both extremes of the political responsible for the appointment of spectroscope, who find in the totally {ts officials, their remuneration, their tarian government of other coun-retention and their dismissal under tries something so admirable that the Land Regulations. Public opinion (Continued on page 140.)
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