The split in the I.L.P. is only one of several
signs of division within the various groups of Labour. In an article in the West- minster Gazette of Thursday, March 24th, Mr. G. D. H. Cole, the prophet of Guild Socialism, says " The appearance of unity which existed in the movement [Socialist organization] before the war has disappeared ; and there are two (or should one say three ?) rival Socialist Internationals . . . to say nothing of two rival Trade Union Internationals between which a conflict of growing bitterness is being waged." The rise of the Moscow International was, of course, a result of the war. There was an attempt to summon a united Socialist Conference at Stockholm in 1917, but it failed. Then when the war was over the Second International was brought into existence to do duty for the extinct International Socialist Bureau.
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