The British Communist Party at a conference at Manchester on
Saturday denounced the leaders of the railwaymen and transport workers-for " treacherously " abandoning the miners and " betraying " the " workers " by their refusal to go on
with their proposed. strike. The executive solemnly expelled Mr. Robert Williams from the party• " in consequence of the part that he had taken." Inasmuch as Mr. Williams had received a medal from Lenin himself, for services rendered to the Bolsheviks, the British Communist Party evidently regards itself as Redder than the Third International. But it is the characteristic of these little revolutionary factions to quarrel violently among themselves. Your true Communist usually hates his fellow-Communists much more bitterly than he hates a capitalist or a " bourgeois." A Communist State, after the preliminary massacres, must inevitably perish through internal discord, as is now becoming manifest in Russia.
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