HE Daily Telegraph's Copenhagen correspondent, in a despatch last week, tried to chill the blood of that paper’s middle class readers by reporting that a Left-wing front had been formed in Scandinavia. It was inaugurated at a meeting in Copenhagen of Mr. C. H. Hermansson, chairman of the Swedish Communist party, Mr. Aksel Larsen, chairman of the Danish Socialist People’s party and Mr. Finn Gustavsen, chairman of the Norwegian Socialist People’s party. Burying their differences, the three
will take place in March, and we have got the CP under its new “revisionist” leadership to propose a motion in parliament. We are also pressing on left-of-centre members in the Social Democratic parliamentary group, and the young Liberals. Direct union work is planned in the longer run. “Your work in England is a great inspiration to us, and we have to a great extent made your proposals our own. Here I must confess, that we are publishing your proposal in Steelworkers’ Voice in the forthcoming issue of ZENIT without having asked for your permission in advance. But the issue has been made in rather extra-ordinary circumstances, and you still have time to stop it. (It is going to print on Tuesday).*
Brian Smith
decided to wage a common campaign for “the neutralisation of the North’: by the withdrawal of Denmark and Norway from the North Atlantic Treaty Organigation and disarming of Sweden. They pledged themselves to observe the rules of Western democracy and to accept the existence of | Opposition parties if they were returned to power. They also stated their independence of Moscow. Mr. Hermansson attacked Russia by denouncing “that poison of nationalism which cam attack even the