Familiar Denunciation

How familiar this sort of denunciation sounds to anyone knowing anything of the history of social progress! In earlier days when they preached socialism the leaders of the Labour Party were also branded as foreign agents.

As it happens, the Communist Party of New Zealand makes no condition requiring anyone joining its ranks to abandon belief in God. And what does the Brigadier mean by "loyalty to country"? In this connection we would remind the Brigadier that two-thirds of the male members of the Communist Party served in New Zealand's armed forces in the Second World War. But does he mean loyalty to the interests of the people of New Zealand? Then, Brigadier, permit us to say that we Communists yield to no one in loyalty, for we place the interests of the mass of the people of New Zealand first! It is precisely because of this that we advocate the ending of a social system which places first the interests of a few—the owners of capital, of the means of production.