FOR THE FIRST time in history: so far as I am aware. the leaders of the Labour Party have taken steps to suppress a newspaper That is the only meaning which can be attached to the latest decre Circuated Mr. Morsin Phillips, Secretary of the Labour Party "I am directed to inform you." he says in a letter sent to trade COnSUCHO parties women's sections *that the National Executive split the party. This is why Bennism will not be defeated just by a witchhunt. Its wellsprings lie in the movement of millions of working people who are demanding a future free from Missiles, unemployment, fear of sickness and and whose insistent demands for a better life find expression in a postwar politics: the demand for democracy.
Bennism expresses the aspirations of those people who are struggling and who con front the unaccountable power of the and banks and want this power to be curtailed. Only if these struggles are thoroughly defeated will the Labour left be minoritised and smashHowever, what the right wing can do and are doing is to prevent this movement capturing the leadership of are driven to do this by a contradiction at the heart of the Party: its leadership is root and branch opposed to any serious challenge to Its own interests depend right on capitalism. This shows up in two the foreign policy objectives of British capital that the constructed? The answer is that in the fighting the leaders, a new socialist party has to be If the fault of the present leaderits failure to confront unaccountable power, then the only way to constuct a new leadership is to