The little Communist factions in Great Britain exposed their weakness
by holding a public conference last Saturday to form a "National Communist Party." The Times states that 170 delegates attended and that they represented perhaps 5,000 Communists of various groups. Mr. Robert Williams and Colonel Malone were among them. The Communists, having decided on civil war and the dictatorship of the proletariat, proceeded to dispute whether they should join the Labour Party. They decided by a narrow majority that it would be tactically wise to do so, although they regard the Labour Party, with its Parliamentary methods, as an antiquated superstition. Whether the Labour Party will admit them is another question. If it had any coherent principles, it would of course exclude Bolsheviks, to whom democracy, liberty, peace, and trade. unionism of the British type are equally abhorrent.
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