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" 5 Preston Tribune meeting, " 6 Furniture trade slump, " 7 America's humanity. " 8 Vietnam youth conference, " 9 Bulgarian tribunal support." 10 Directors and workers! control. " 11 Arundel-Roberts strike. " 12 Trade union leaflet given out " 13 Disaffiliation from Labour, " at March 12th rally, Labour's crisis: Pollok and Shinwell's resignation Although not directly connected, Pollok's shock loss for Labour and and Shinwell's resignation. aresymptoms of a deep crisis of policy, They flow from the same process: the continued gallop to the right which Wilson has teen making since his election, They also point out another lesson: Wilson's policies are deeply dangerous to Labour, its traditions and even its organisation, The left has been accused of rocking the boat; Wilson has sailed it on to very dangerous waters, Unless the left organises it may very well sink! Recent developments show too that those who argued that it was wrong for "tactical reasons" to fight Wilson have been shown to be completely mistaken, When the 62 M.P.s abstained on the defence issue this did nothing but good: it has shaken the right wing structure of the Party and forced the apparatus to even appear conciliatory, The lesson is very clear, The Guam conference: a new escalation planned? Next Saturday Johnson is to fly to Guam to confer with his military heads from South East Asia, It has been rumoured that Westmoreland, the butcher of Vietnam, is to be made supreme commander of all U.S. South East Asian forces, This would be the logical corollary of using the 7th Fleet and other U.S. forces for the invasion of the North, or the bombing and shelling of the dykes at the flood season, In the next two weeks there will be a large number of activities on the left: the keynote of these activities must be an urgent appeal for action. We must declare that we will not tolerate further escalation of the war by America and that we insist on Labour opposing this,