The Labour Party Executive announced on Tuesday that it had
refused the application of the newly formed Communist Party for affiliation, on the ground that " the declared objects of the Communist Party do not appear to be in accord " with the Labour Party programme. We are glad to find that the Labour Party Executive has had the courage at last to repudiate the " dictatorship of the proletariat " and the " heavy civil war " which the Communists, at the bidding of Moscow, desire to promote. But will the Labour Party proceed to purge its ranks of those who openly avow themselves disciples of Lenin--such as Mr. Lansbury, or Mr. Smillie, or Mr. Tom Mann, or Mr. C. T. Cramp ? These men have expressed their agreement with the Communist programme to which the Labour Party Executive rightly objects, and yet they remain in the Labour Party.
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