Evening star., 1951-08-01

ASACO 4AICA6 A4OIu d11y DOuI SCOlS
government anxious to preserve
the capitalist system and ensure
impressive profits for the capital
lists. a
The profits of the capitalists in
Britain are, indeed, growing from
year to year, while the wages of
the workers remain frozen, the
Labor Government protecting this
regime of exploitation directed
against the workers with every
possible means to the extent of
prosecuting and arresting workers.
Surely such Government cannot
be called a Socialist Government?
Capitalist Profits Scored.
One might have thought that
with the coming of Labor to
power capitalist exploitation
would be abolished, that steps
would be taken to ensure the sys-
|tematic reduction of the prices of
mass consumer goods. that the
conditions of the working people
would be radically improved. In
stead of this, we observe in Brit
Iain the growth of capitalist profits
and the freezing of workers
wages, a rise in the prices of
mass consumer goods, and so on.
No, We cannot call such policy
Ia Socialist policy.
AS for the British broadcasts
to the Soviet Union (BBC broad
casts, they are known to be aimed
primarily at encouraging the
enemies Of the Soviet people in
their efforts to restore capitalist
exploitation. Naturally, the Soviets
cannot support such anti-popular
propaganda which, moreover. con-
lstitutes interference in the in
Iternal affairs of the U. S. S. R.
Mr.. Morrison asserts that Soviet
power in the U. S. S. r. is monop-
Iolized power, since it represents
the rule of one party, the Com
Imunist Party. Arguing along this
line, one can come to the con-
IcluSion that the Labor govern
ment is likewise a monopolized
government, since it represents
the rule of one party, the Labor
Party.
This, however, is not the point.
The point is that the Communists
in the U. S. S. r.. in the first place,
do not act in isolation, but in a
bloc with a non-party people and
in the second place, that in the
course of the U. S. S. RS histori-
cal development the Communist
Party proved the only anti-capi-
talist, Peoples Party.
In the course of the past sc
years the peoples of the Soviet
Union have tested in action all the
principal parties that existed in
Russia: The party of the land
lords (The Black Hundreds), the
party of the capitalists Cadets
tthe party of the Mensheviks
(right-wing Socialists), the party
Iof the Observation-Disclosures (tht
defenders Of the Kulaks), and the
party of the Communists.
Bourgeois Parties Defeated.
In the course of the revolution.
ary developments in the U. S. S. r.
the peoples of our country swep
aside all the bourgeois parties anc
made their choice in favor of thu
y Communist Party, considering thi
party to be the only anti-landlort
and anti-capitalist party. This i
a historical fact. Naturally, tn
; peoples of the U. S. S. r. are Civ
ling their wholehearted support II
the Communist Party which ha
been tested in battle.
What can Mr.. Morrison put for
ward against this historical fact
Does Mr.. Morrison think that TO
:. the sake of a dubitable rigamol
t with an opposition, the wheel o
history should be turned back ant
t these long deceased partie
: brought back to life?
2. FOREIGN POLICY.
2 Mr.. Morrison asserts that tn
S Labor Government is for strength
r Iening peace, that it does not in an
way threaten the Soviet Union
: that the North Atlantic Pact is no
an aggressive pact, but a defensiv
, one, and that if Britain has takel
: the road of an arms drive, this
because she has been compelle,
1Ito do so, inasmuch as the Sovie
Union did not demobilize its arm,
: Sufficiently after the Second Worl,
/ War.
;, There is not a grain Of truth il
elall these assertions of Mr.. Nor
= Irison'S.
= If the Labor Government !
t really for the preservation O
: -Ipeace' WY does it reject a five