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1 We have already seen, in general, the answer to this question. The answer requires further amplification. The People’s Front cannot stop fascism. The theory of the People’s Front rests upon a false account...

1 One of the chief arguments made in favor of the People’s Front is that through it there can be brought about an alliance between the working class and the middle classes against the...

1 We have seen that the People’s Front is in content equivalent to class collaboration and coalition government. Consequently, the lessons of history with respect to class collaboration and coalition government apply with full...

1 It would be a great mistake to imagine that the People’s Front is a new policy. It is, it is true, a new slogan; but, in actual content, it is simply an old policy in...

1 The slogans of the People’s Front were first advanced by the Communist International and its sections. They began to appear toward the end of 1933; moved forward slowly for some while; and received...

by James Burnham, Pioneer Publishers, New York, 1937. Origin and Theory of the People’s Front Analysis of the Theory of the People’s Front History and the People’s Front Can the People’s Front Win the...

By Leon Trotsky, 30 November 1935, published in The Crisis of the French Section (1935-36) To the Members of the Bolshevik-Leninist Group: I have just learned that my letter to the Political Bureau on the...

Introduction to The Fight For Socialism: The Principles and Program of the Workers Party, by Spartacist. Introductory works on socialism too often oversimplify to the point of being liberal mush. At the same time the author...

The Clock Without a Spring The following document, by Ken Tarbuck, was originally published in the Winter 1969-70 issue of Marxist Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1. The invasion of Czechoslovakia in August of 1968 by...

The following article, written by Cliff Slaughter, was originally published nearly forty years ago in Labour Review, theoretical organ of the British Socialist Labour League (SLL). It was reprinted, along with several others from the...