Labour Undiluted The National. Executive Committee of the Labour Party
has taken the expected, it might almost be said the inevitable, decision regarding various " United Front and " Popular Front " proposals emanating from quarters to the Left and the Right of it respectively. The appeal for the acceptance of Communists in the ranks of the Party has been overwhelmingly defeated at• Party con- ferences, and for the best of reasons ; the Labour Party-, tenets are democratic, the tenets of Communism are not. And it does not make Communism the more attractive that makes its approach with Sir Stafford Cripps and the Socialist League on the one arm and Mr. Maxton and the Independent Labour Party on the other. Infiltration has always been a cardinal feature. of Communist strategy and the Labour Party- would. be singularly simple if it lent itself to that process. But it• it rebuffs Communist advances on one side it can hardly -accept the embraces of a section of Liberals on the other. Either Liberals believe, like Labour, in the nationalisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange, or they do not. If they do they should join the Labour Party. If they do not Labour has no particular reason for wanting a common front with them. So at. least. the Labour Party Executive seems to think,_ and there is no reason to criticise its conclusions, particularly as the Liberals in question are quite open to an alliance with the Communists.
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