Abstract

The Meaning of Bevanism: British Labor's Dilemma

Over the years effective power in the Labor-Party has been assembled into fewer hands. Democracy has made concessions to its old enemy, bureaucracy. This was partly made inevitable by the methods of Communist conspiracy within the unions. But it has gone much too far for the health of a movement which prides itself on its democratic upbringing and instincts. Rank-and-file opinion can still make itself felt through the vote in the constituency-party section and by other means. The party and trade-union machine sometimes becomes the enemy of democracy. The fight to end that state of affairs in the Labor Party is now on. It is a necessary prelude to the fight for establishing a democratic Socialist government in office.