Joel A Lewis Youth Against Fascism.pdf
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YOUTH AGAINST FASCISM<br />
79. George Poole, "Make Britain Safe: All <strong>Youth</strong> Should be Allowed to Join in ARP," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no.<br />
47 (December 3, 1938): 4.<br />
80. Anonymous TA Soldier, "Make Britain Safe: The Enemy Has Friends in High Places," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4,<br />
no. 42 (October 29, 1938): 5.<br />
81. "Biggest Army in the World is Democratic," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 5, no. 13 (April 1, 1939): 8.<br />
82. "Make Britain Safe: Policy is the Keystone in the Fabric of Defence," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no. 43 (November<br />
5, 1938): 4.<br />
83. "Make Britain Safe: We Need The Right Policy, Strong <strong>Youth</strong>, Democratic Army, Bomb-Proof Shelters, A United Democratic<br />
People," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no. 44 (November 12, 1938): 4.<br />
84. J.B. Urquhart, "The Youngest Candidate," Challenge: The Paper For Britain's <strong>Youth</strong> 1, no.10 (November, 1935): 4.<br />
85. H. Donald Moore, "I Believe in the Freedom Our Forefathers Fought For: Let Us Unite Before it is Too Late," Challenge:<br />
The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no.18 (May 5, 1938): 5.<br />
86. "Return a Labour Government," Challenge: The Paper For Britain's <strong>Youth</strong> 1, no.10 (November, 1935): 5.<br />
87. Eric Organ, "<strong>Youth</strong> Speaks on the Elections," Challenge: The Paper For Britain's <strong>Youth</strong> 1, no.10 (November, 1935): 5.<br />
88. Cyril Lacey, "My Message to Challenge Readers," Challenge: The Paper For Britain's <strong>Youth</strong> 1, no.11 (December, 1935):<br />
7.<br />
89. Mick Bennett, "No One Can Stand Aside: Join the Young Communist League – Help Defeat the Government," Challenge:<br />
The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no.9 (March 3, 1938): 5.<br />
90. John Gollan, "This is What a People's Government Would do For Peace," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no.11 (March<br />
17, 1938): 5.<br />
91. In his 1969 publication entitled The People's War: Britain 1939-1945, Angus Calder explored the relationship between<br />
democracy, the Labour Party and voluntary service for anti-fascism. In a later review of this work, Ira Katznelson's affirmed<br />
Calder's contentions that only Labour could have negotiated the "two competing valuations of the role of class and<br />
nation, the image of the united national family and the class image of 'us' and 'them.'" See Angus Calder, The People's<br />
War: Britain 1939-1945 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1969); Ira Katznelson, "Book Review of The People's War: Britain<br />
1939-1945," Political Science Quarterly 86, no.3 (September, 1971): 526-528.<br />
92. Mick Bennett and John L. Douglas, "For a People's Government of Peace and Social Advance," Our <strong>Youth</strong>: Discussion<br />
Magazine of the Young Communist League 1, no.2 (May, 1938): 17.<br />
93. John Gollan, "The Opponents of <strong>Fascism</strong> Are Becoming Stronger," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no. 48 (December<br />
10, 1938): 5.<br />
94. "Service As Free Men or As Slaves," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 5, no. 4 (January 28, 1939): 6.<br />
95. Wal Hannington, "Do You Want to be Forced Into "Labour Service," to be Taken From Your Home, Sent to Militaristic<br />
Training Camps," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no. 9 (March 3, 1938): 3.<br />
96. "What Have You To Say About It," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 5, no. 4 (January 28, 1939): 5.<br />
97. "The <strong>Youth</strong> Trade Union Movement," Our <strong>Youth</strong>: Discussion Magazine of the Young Communist League 2, no.4 (April,<br />
1939): 131.<br />
98. Bennett, "There Will Be no Democracy," 8.<br />
99. "The BYPA," 123.<br />
100. "How They Are Getting Together," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 5, no. 11 (March 18, 1939): 2.<br />
101. "The National <strong>Youth</strong> Campaign," 135.<br />
102. Mick Bennett and John L. Douglas, "On the <strong>Youth</strong> Charter of Social Justice," Our <strong>Youth</strong>: Discussion Magazine of the<br />
Young Communist League 1, no.2 (May, 1938): 21.<br />
103. A.K. "The National Parliament of <strong>Youth</strong>," World <strong>Youth</strong> Review 1, no. 3 (March, 1939): 59.<br />
104. ECYCLGB, "Principles of Leadership and Some Ideas on Mass Work," Our <strong>Youth</strong>: Discussion Magazine of the Young<br />
Communist League 2, no.3 (March, 1939): 78.<br />
105. Mick Bennett, "The <strong>Youth</strong> Pilgrimage To London," World <strong>Youth</strong> Review 1, no. 3 (March, 1939): 48.<br />
106. Mick Bennett, "The <strong>Youth</strong> Pilgrimage to London Part 2," World <strong>Youth</strong> Review 1, no. 4 (April, 1939): 74.<br />
107. YCLGB, <strong>Youth</strong> on the March (London: YCLGB, 1939), 10.<br />
108. Bennett, "The <strong>Youth</strong> Pilgrimage To London," 48.<br />
109. Bennett, "There Will Be no Democracy," 8.<br />
110. "100 Years Ago: Song of the Lower Classes," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 5, no. 5 (February 4, 1939): 10.<br />
111. John Douglas, "Nine Days That Shook England," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no. 35 (September 10, 1938): 10.<br />
112. John Gollan, "Our Heritage is Democracy: Unite to Defend It," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no. 16 (April 21, 1938):<br />
7.<br />
113. British communists asserted, as did many other intellectuals of the thirties, that "the burning of books outside Berlin University"<br />
and "the exiling of hundreds of intellectuals, have caused other countries to regard Nazi as a synonym for barbarian."<br />
Publications like Left Review were designed specifically to counter fascist attacks upon modernist culture by<br />
bringing together artists, intellectuals, poets and writers to promote anti-fascist politics and democratic culture. See Alexander<br />
Henderson, "What the Nazis Have Done For Culture," Left Review 3, no.6 (July, 1937): 325.<br />
114. Peter Toenning, "Growing Criminality of German <strong>Youth</strong>," World <strong>Youth</strong> Review 1, no. 3 (March, 1939): 61.<br />
115. "Young Intelligentsia of the Country of Highest Culture," World <strong>Youth</strong> Review 1, no. 4 (April, 1939): 82.<br />
116. Harry Ireland, "What's Wrong With the League in Glasgow," Our <strong>Youth</strong>: Discussion Magazine of the Young Communist<br />
League 1, no.4 (July, 1938): 26.<br />
117. W.W., "All Change Here: Poetry and People," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 4, no. 49 (December 17, 1938): 3.<br />
118. "New Auguries of Innocence (After William Blake)," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 5, no. 1 (January 7, 1939): 10.<br />
119. Miles Carpenter, "The Heart Remembers When the Mind Forgets," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 5, no. 14 (April 8,<br />
1939): 6.<br />
120. ECYCLGB, "Planning For the Campaign," 11.<br />
121. Robert Sayers, The Road to Victory: Marching Song of the <strong>Youth</strong>! (London: People's Songs, 1938), 1-2.<br />
122. George LeBaron, "Big Film Shocker For Hitler," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 5, no. 19 (May 13, 1939): 8.<br />
123. A critique of leisure opportunities was not a new phenomenon for the YCL. The Leninist YCLGB had continually pushed<br />
a critique of "worker's sport vs. boss' sport" which was used by the bosses to "distract the workers' attention from things<br />
that matter, to draw young workers under militaristic influences." See William Rust, What the Young Communist League<br />
Stands For (London: YCLGB, 1925), 20-21.<br />
124. "Our Leisure and What They Want to do With It," Challenge: The Voice of <strong>Youth</strong> 5, no.6 (February 11, 1939): 9.<br />
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