本书是英国共产党总书记哈利·波立特在英国共产党第二十二次代表大会上的政治报告。他在这报告中分析了英国的国内外形势,并提出了英国共产党当前的任务。波立特在本书中首先论述了英国的经济情况,并指出了在解决英国经济问题上的两条道路。他写道:“英国经济情况恶化的迹象是很显然的。对外贸易方面这些迹象可以从极端尖锐化的贸易逆差和支付差额的危机上看出来”(页五)。英国的贸易逆差在第二次实际大战後显著恶化,并逐渐变为英国 This book is a political report by British Communist Party general secretary Harry Pollitt at the Twenty Second Congress of the British Communist Party. In this report, he analyzed the situation in Britain and abroad and proposed the current task of the British Communist Party. In his book, Politet first discussed the British economy and pointed out two paths to solving the British economic problems. He writes: “The signs of a worsening of the economy in the United Kingdom are clear, and these signs of foreign trade can be seen from the extremely sharpened trade deficit and the crisis of paying the difference” (p.5). The trade deficit in Britain deteriorated significantly after the Second World War and gradually became Britain