Direct Action and the Constitution (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Direct Action and the Constitution Direct Action and the Constitution. By Clement J.Bijndock. Every time Labour shows a determined front to the Imperiah sts and Capitalists it meets with a howl of execration from the reactionary Press and the leaders of the Government. The more determined it becomes and the more efficiently it organises, the fiercer will be the denunciations. That merely proves its effectiveness and demonstrates its power. The Russo-Polish crisis created a solidarity in the ranks of Labour such as the movement has never before known. Politicals and Industrials united on a common platform and pledged themselves, with a unanimity that fired the rank and file, to use any and every weapon h.their power to protect the peace of the world or sucli peace as the world enjoys as the result of the vicious policies of the statesmen who settled the Great War at Versailles and to strengthen the pacific forces of the world. It was only natural that the war party, the big-empire men, and the capitalists, who had been trying for two years by a succession of despicable intrigues to smash the Soviet Government of Russia, should howl with a special ferocity, and the leader writers scribble with an intensified fierceness, against this new and utterly disconcerting sign of complete unity in the ranks of organised Labour. "The formation of the Council of Action, said the Premier, was a threat striking at the roots of the democratic constitution of this country." Before we pass on to the main purpose of this pamphlet a consideration of the methods and actions of the freespirited men who contributed to the building up of our constitution and the defence of it the actual position at the moment must be made clear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.