Excerpt from The Fight for Freedom: A Play in Four Acts When the International People's Theatre is founded, one of the first plays it ought to put on, if it means to do educational as well as artistic work, is Douglas Goldring's beautiful drama, "The Fight for Freedom." Not that this drama is a panegyric of Socialism. On the contrary, it might almost be said to be a criticism of the Socialist party. Its merit, its strength, resides in its bringing out the pathetic tragedy of the harsh truth underlying the obscure drama that divides humanity in two. "The Fight for Freedom" puts before us the idea that at the present time dominates and influences all other ideas - the idea of revolution. It is set in its proper place here, taken at its source, at the very heart of man. Thence it tumbles like an impetuous torrent and dashes into a river. For it is not enough, no, it is not enough to aspire towards the happiness of the people, towards the deep, radical transformation of the old regime which oppresses them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.