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From International Socialism, No.13, Summer 1963, p.37.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Outside the Right
Fenner Brockway
Geo. Allen & Unwin. 25s.
This book is a sequel to Inside the Left. In it Brockway continues the story of his life over the post-war period. It is disappointingly scrappy. On the colonial revolution, for instance, we are given, in spite of the author’s special interest in colonial affairs, little more than a potted history of the main events, combined with reminiscences of his visits to Africa and elsewhere, journalistic impressions of the people he met and the innumerable conferences he attended. Similarly with the struggle between left and right in the Labour Party. It would have been valuable to have had inside information on the various left groupings and the reasons for their rise and fall, but this is not vouchsafed. For the rest, there are a few glimpses of an MP’s routine and some miscellaneous reminiscences, most notably of G.B. Shaw. Some hitherto unpublished letters from Shaw to Brockway on political topics are printed as an appendix to the book.
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