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Ireland, the Labour Party and the Empire

 

 After a long and bitter struggle, there is at last the prospect of peace in Ireland. The

workers of Ulster and the South have fought with a fervour only equalled by the

frenzy of the late world war, and are now to be able to see what it really was they

fought for. If they hope for anything better than the fate common to ex-soldiers in all

the countries of Europe—victors and vanquished alike—then disappointment awaits

them.

 

 Sinn Fein, behind a screen of fine-sounding no-surrender proclamations, appears to be

preparing to forego the demand for full recognition of Ireland's status as an

The Socialist and Conscription

In spite of repeated promises to the contrary, conscription is to become the law of this country during peace time. It is the first occasion that such a drastic denial of democracy will have been brought into operation here when war was not in progress. Already we are warned of the kind of scenes we shall witness—the prosecution of unwilling conscripts, the charges of shirking and the encouragement of tale-bearing by those who suspect their friends and neighbours of avoiding conscription. A Staff Reporter of the Daily Express writes:

“Those who are personally summoned and fail to answer will probably be treated as deserters. As in the great war, the authorities are relying on ‘the next-door neighbour with a son in the Army’ to denounce a shirker” (Daily Express, 28th April, 1939).

It is worthy of note that conscription has promptly received the support of a leader of the Church, the Bishop of St. Albans.

Date: 
1939

Labour Government or Socialism?

Foreword

This pamphlet tells you what socialists think of Labour government - not only the Wilson government which entered office in 1964 but all Labour governments past, present and future.

Date: 
1968

Cooking the Books 1: Capitalism will not be controlled

Gordon Brown will go down in history as a failure. Politically, as a prime minister who never won an election. Economically, as the man who arrogantly and pompously announced that his policies had led to the end of the boom/bust cycle, only to find himself a year or so later presiding over capitalism’s biggest slump since the 1930s.

Philip Collins commented on this claim in his column in the Times on 7 January:

“Weirdly, the Labour Party appeared to have concluded that capitalism had become stable, ordered and pliant. They need to read their Marx again, They’ll find a picture of capitalism as creative, destructive, radical, disruptive and prone to cycles of boom and bust, even when commanded to behave by Labour chancellors.”

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