On Friday, June 25th, an exceedingly important vote was taken
in the Labour Party. Congress when the question of the representation of British Labour at the Third International was debated. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald explained the view of the Executive. What the Labour Party had to do was to take a quiet and sane view of the whole situation. The Third Inter- national proposed to apply Russian conditions to International policy. It stood for the dictatorship of the E?oletariat. Another speaker had spoken " in a fine, academic, revolutionary frame of mind, and had said- there could only be a dictatorship of the plutocracy or a dictatorship of the democracy. Had they never considered that there may be something which is neither the one nor the other ? " It was all very well to talk- about revo- lutions in the security of one's own fireside. We ought to hold, as far as the Third International is concerned, an absolutely independent attitude.
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