ABSTRACT
The main concern of the British Labour party in calling the conference was, however, the renewal of the Socialist International. The vacuum thus created had been filled, however sparsely, by a small international group of leaders from the suppressed European Socialist parties who had found asylum in Great Britain. An International, based on the power and influence of the European Socialist parties, was for the first time in a position to become a true power factor capable of direct influence over world policy. The renewal of the International was once again brought up for debate at the next international Socialist conference, held in Bournemouth in early November 1946. Acting in the spirit of the report, the Socialist International Conference meeting at Antwerp, at the end of November 1947, agreed to admit the Social Democratic party (S.P.D.) as an equal member. The S.P.D. differs in its programme neither in word nor deed from the Socialist parties of other countries.
