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68. See Thomas Ricento, "The Discursive Construction of Americanism."
69. Joe Clark, "Our Fourth of July," Young Communist Review 3, no.5 (July, 1938):8.
70. Alfred Steele, "Lincoln, Douglass, Washington," Young Communist Review 3, no.12 (February, 1939): 16
71. Joseph Clark, "Flesh of our Flesh," Young Communist Review 2, no.2 (February, 1937): 8.
72. "Editorials" Young Communist Review 3, no.5 (July, 1938): 5
73. "Preamble to the Constitution of the Young Communist League, Adopted at the Ninth National Convention, May, 1939,"
Young Communist Review 4, no.4 (June, 1939): 31
74. Joe Cohen, "The Soviet Union and Spain," Young Communist Review 1, no.2 (December, 1936): 9
75. "Editorials," Young Communist Review 3, no.3 (May, 1938): 5
76. Bob Thompson, "Dave Doran as War Commissar," Young Communist Review 3, no.7 (September, 1938): 24.
77. Richard H. Rovere, "Books, 1938," Young Communist Review 3, no.11 (January, 1939): 21.
78. "Editorials," Young Communist Review 3, no.4 (June, 1938):5
79. Helen Vrabel, "Our Declaration of Principles: Shall it be Changed," Young Communist Review 4, no.2 (April, 1939): 5
80. "Thumbnail Reviews," Young Communist Review 3, no.7 (September, 1938): 28.
81. Earl Browder published a pamphlet entitled North America and the Soviet Union: The Heritage of Our People in 1937
containing an address he delivered to the Communist Party of Canada. In his speech Browder linked the revolutionary
legacies of the Soviet and American nations as inspirations to mobilize anti-fascists throughout the world. See Earl
Browder, North America and the Soviet Union: The Heritage of Our People (New York: Worker's Library Publishers,
1937).
82. Mac Weiss, "May Day, An American Tradition," Young Communist Review 3, no.3 (May, 1938): 14-15.
83. "That's What They Think: Letters From Our Readers," Young Communist Review 4, no.5 (July, 1939): 24.
84. Due to its overwhelming immigrant population, the United States was intimately linked historically and culturally to nations
throughout the world. This internationalism of the American Republic enabled the nationalist rhetoric of the YCL to
take on a unique balance between nationalism and internationalism.
85. "Men Are Created Equal," Challenge: The Paper For All Youth 4, no.1 (January 6, 1938): 9.
86. Gil Green, "In the Spirit of Dave Doran," Young Communist Review 3, no.5 (July, 1938): 4-5.
87. "Preamble to the Constitution," 31.
88. "Editorials," Young Communist Review 3, no.3 (May, 1938): 5.
89. Francis Franklin, "What is Dialectics," Young Communist Review 3, no.9 (November, 1938): 15.
90. Carl Ross, "After the Primaries," Young Communist Review 3, no.8 (October, 1938): 3.
91. "Greetings to the World Youth Congress," Young Communist Review 3, no.6 (August, 1938): 4.
92. The YCL typically did not direct attacks against Roosevelt after 1936, but kept articulating a vehement criticism towards
elements in the Democratic Party that who did not express the willingness to keep advancing the New Deal and to implement
the anti-fascist foreign policies that Roosevelt supported.
93. Carl Ross, "Events of the Month," Young Communist Review 3, no.5 (July, 1938): 20.
94. Carl Ross, "The Elections Results," Young Communist Review 3, no.10 (December, 1938): 26.
95. Gil Green, "Creative Marxism," Young Communist Review 4, no.4 (June, 1939): 6.
96. Carl Geiser, "I Was in a Fascist Concentration Camp," Young Communist Review 4, no.5 (July, 1939): 10.
97. Phil Gillan, The Defence of Madrid (London: YCLGB, 1937), 7.
98. Gollan, Defend the People, 2, 4.
99. "Helping Spain's People," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 5 (February 4, 1939): 4.
100. Mr. Alfred Barnes M.P., "If We Are to Save Our Own Homes," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 5 (February 4,
1939): 1.
101. Gabriel Carritt, "Every Gun in Spain Defends Us in Britain," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 5 (February 4, 1939): 4.
102. Molly McCulloch, "When Barcelona Fell," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 5 (February 4, 1939): 7.
103. Clark, "Flesh of Our Flesh," 8.
104. "Editorials," Young Communist Review 3, no.1 (March, 1938): 3.
105. Wolf Michael, "Our Power Lies in Unity," Young Communist Review 2, no.3 (March, 1937): 13.
106. "Editorials," Young Communist Review 3, no.10 (December, 1938): 9.
107. Joseph Starobin, "Czechoslovakia and World Peace," Young Communist Review 3, no.8 (October, 1938): 18
108. One of the most contentious aspects of Popular Front history is evaluating the extent to which communist movements in
the West persisted in following Comintern directives. Popular Front propaganda gave the appearance of distinct national
lines, obscuring many of the internationalist links that persisted between the YCLs and the Comintern. This research does
not attempt to engage in these debates centred on the use of internal documentation to prove the extent of "Moscow control"
of Western communists. Communist publications were the main source to which members were exposed to the political
values and dynamics of their movement. During the Leninist Generation, constant references were made to
Comintern directives and resolutions as the basis for communist politics in the west. While many of these links certainly
persisted during the Popular Front era, YCL propaganda rarely made mention of the Comintern or YCI, instead giving an
appearance of decentralization and national independence in their youth literature.
UNITY OF YOUTH: FROM SECTARIANISM TO POPULISM
1. Santiago Carrillo, "Forward to Victory," Young Communist Review 1, no.2 (December, 1936): 12.
2. Carl Ross, "The American Youth Movement," Young Communist Review 4, no.3 (May, 1939): 35.
3. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, "Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle" in Marx and Engels Internet Archive <
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1879/09/17.htm>. This article was published as part of a series of letters
from Marx and Engels to the leadership of the SPD in 1879 to argue against the trend of transforming the SPD from party
from a revolutionary to a reformist platform. The main theoretical issue addressed in these letters was the issue of class
collaboration.
4. VI Lenin, "The Position and Tasks of the Socialist International" in VI Lenin Internet Archive
.
5. VI Lenin, "Left-Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder: Several Conclusions" in VI Lenin Internet Archive <
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ch10.htm>.
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