126:, the left-wing weekly newspaper, in the hope of winning them to its ideals, while retaining a high requirements for loyalty and activity among its own members. In the Fabian Society, it found itself unable to gain influence, while in the other cases it soon came to believe that the organisations were not focused on worthwhile activities. However, the process did see some of its members become trusted within the Labour Party, with Green and Flanders joining
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movement. The failure of this approach to increase the membership or influence of the organisation led it, in 1941, to adopt a new name, the
Socialist Vanguard Group, with an orientation towards supporting sympathetic figures in the Labour Party. It also relaunched its journal as
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from the group, it thereafter being published by the
International Publishing Company. This enabled Phillips to write a letter to Labour groups, recommending that they purchase the newspaper, and boosted its circulation to 4,000 an issue, with contributors including
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