The Socialist League The decision taken by the Socialist League
on Sunday to dissolve itself is undoubtedly, from its own point of view, politic. If the League had decided to remain in being, and to continue its Unity campaign with the I.L.P. and the Communists, its members would have been forced to leave the Labour Party ; and outside it they would have been in a far less effective position for propagating their views, or for influencing the Socialist movement, than within it. The history of the I.L.P. is a good demonstration of the ineffective- ness of parties which cut themselves off from the main body of the movement ; members of the Socialist League can console themselves with the reflection that there is far more genuine " unity " in remaining inside the Party than in' issuing flamboyant but fruitless joint manifestoes with Mr. Maxton and Mr. Pollitt.
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