A Socialist Foreign Policy

All of what is written here would be impOSsible unless there were a complete re-alignment of British foreign policy. In particular, Britain must leave all the alliances set up by the United S,ates to "contain communism (that.is, to try to hold back the world advance towards national liberation and social progress). But this is not enough — one cannot be neutral in the world today, The new Britain would have to be on the side of the oppriessed. Instead of being junior partner to American imperialism, a workers' Britain would assist the peoples struggling for national liberation. In one sense only is the present Government correct when it says that Britain's future is in Burope. Present national boundaries are becoming more and more outmoded by the development of the means of production. The Common Market is the way capitalists have sought to solve this problem. A Britain advancing towards socialism would be vitally concerned with helping the workers' movement on the continent. Firstly, to assist those movements to resist the growing power of European capitalism, which confronts the workers' movement in a more and more unified manner; and secondly, in order to link up with them to coordinate plans for a struggle for the United Socialist States of Europe. An immediate step toWards this should be the call for an all-European conference of labour to meet the challenge of the Common Market. The British Labour movement is well suited to do this because it is not split into religious and political organisations as is the movement in most BuroP®an countries. Whilst the new workers' Britain would form close and loyal links with such countries as the Soviet Union where ‘capitalism has been destraqyed, it would also have the duty of helping all those struggling for workers' democracy in those countries. A workers' Britain would, indeed, be an inspiring example for those forces.