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crats have always been at home with class collaboration and have always been thrilled at an invitation to Buckingham Palace.
During both the First and Second World Wars they have acted as steadfast front runners and agents for the bourgeoisie in policing the working class. Such attitudes die hard in the TUC.
However they did after thai period return for a while to a minimal pretence of detending their members' interests and wages. But under Wilson this was to be thrown aside. SPOTLIGHT On February 19th an attempt will be made to get a particularly sinister piece of Labour Party history to repeat itself.
On that day "moderate" Labour MPs, local counciliors and party workers from all over the country have been called to a meeting in London to set up a pressure group for anti-Socialist views in the It is based on the Manifesto than Prentice's Social Democratic Allance.
The Chairman of the meeting will be right-wing Transport Secretary, William Rodgers.
Just seventeen years ago, in William Rodgers who organised a letter from 15 parliamentary candidates in support of Hugh Gaitskell against the Labour Party 'left' From this letter came a committee including Roy Jenkins, Anthony Crosland and other well-known right wingers which produced a manifesto.
And immediately • after the victory of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1960 Labour Conference, into the manifesto turned Campaign for Democratic Socialism, of which Rodgers was full-time paid Chairman.
In the words of journalist Richard Fletcher it was "the most effective pressure group the Party had ever seen"
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