Abstract
The Labour Party was not the only socialist party to contest the 1945 general election. For a variety of reasons the war had given birth to a new party of the left ‐ Common Wealth ‐ and enabled the Communist Party to grow to an unprecedented extent. Well before the end of the first Attlee government both organisations bitterly accused labour of having betrayed the socialist cause. In fact it will be shown here that both organisations welcomed the Labour victory and fought the 1945 election with virtually identical programmes of domestic reform. In both minor parties of the left, Labour was held to be engaged in a genuine transformation of British society.
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