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This month's issuo of Socialist Commentary, a right wing journal of the Ilark Abrams type of Gaitskollite, talks of the "gravo" and “inmediate" dangers to the Labour Party's radical image arising out of the Party's (and presumably Gaitskell's) attitude towards the Common Market. Numbor one it lists is thr dangor to its internationalist roputationg the second boing risk of boing considered a defonder of the status quo3 thirdly thoy pose tho quostion of a return to austsrity if Britain stops out of the Common ].arkot which would moan Labour once again being known as the 'austority' party; fourthly, thoy claim that the Tories could divert ho attention of the voters away from their misorabloe rocord if the Common Markot becomes the main cloction issue; fifthly, using the argument that Labour cannot win elections by the working class vote alone they say that opposition to tho Common ilarket will alionate tho modern—minded of all classos; end sixthly, saying that Labour has been embarrassed in the past by the old-fashimed attitude of the trade unions, they claim that now the 1.U.s are showing a will to change it will appoar that the Labour Party is becoming cautiously conservative.
Two things come out of this, on the one hand this trenchant attack shows that the right wing is going to maintain its pressure on Gaitskell and co. to set them to modify their attitude, and on ths othor hand apart from the point on intcrnationalism, the whole tono of the criticism is concerned with the forthcoming qoral clection. This is,of course, directed at what really concerns the loadeorship of the Labour Party — getting back into office.