[Ted Grant] LP Endorses Truce - Not Reflection of Rank and File Feeling

"The only expressed opposition to the war, came from Rhys Davies, who spoke demanding the end of the truce and put a purely pacifist case. The Labour bureaucracy seem to like getting him to speak at conferences, as they apparently look on him as a useful Aunt Sally. Delegates will obviously not be won over by his sterile and utopian case." / Image: Wikimedia Commons

The Labour leaders were in the wartime coalition, but not as “equal partners”. What the bosses wanted came first and the Labour leaders bowed down to this pressure. But pressure was also building up from below to meet the needs of the workers. Ted Grant looked at how all this was reflected in the Labour Party conference.

Read the full article in the Ted Grant Archive.