GREAT BRITAIN: Nag & Gnaw

Last week British Communist Party Secretary Harry Pollitt, standing before Lenin's portrait, briefed the Party Executive Committee on the new party line from Moscow. British Communists must pep up their policy of gnawing into the trade unions and nagging at the Labor government (which they helped to elect in 1945) for cooperation with the U.S. Pollitt declared war on the Labor Government, which he sneered at as "Right-Wing Social Democracy." British Communists, said Pollitt, must start an organizing drive among trade unions. Their immediate objective was the same as that of French,...

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