Joel A Lewis Youth Against Fascism.pdf

YOUTH AGAINST FASCISM
257. Santiago Carrillo, "Young Spain Against the Betrayal," World Youth Review 1, no. 4 (April, 1939): 70.
258. "The 11 th National Conference of the Young Communist League of Great Britain," World Youth Review 1, no. 5 (May,
1939): 96.
259. Strack, "War or Peace – The Students Answer," 14.
260. Kling, "They Shall Not Pass," 14.
261. "Editorials," Young Communist Review 3, no.1 (March, 1938): 6.
262. Ross, "Against a Ludlow Agreement," 16.
263. "Clippings of the Day," Young Communist Review 3, no.3 (May, 1938): 30.
264. "Czechoslovakia and Spain: An Editorial," Young Communist Review 4, no.2 (April, 1939): 11.
265. "The 11 th National Conference of the Young Communist League of Great Britain," 96.
266. W.W. "At the Call of Freedom They Will March Again," 3.
267. Cohen, "Youth Defends Spain," 8.
268. "Recruiting Drive," 29.
269. Clare Schechter, "Letters to the Editor," Young Communist Review 3, no.5 (July, 1938): 32.
270. "Welcome Home to the Lincoln Brigade," 6.
271. West, "The YCL Speaks," 25.
272. Starobin, "This Fourth of July: Editorial," 30.
273. Strack, "Answering Questions On Collective Security," 12.
CONCLUSION: THE YOUTH STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR
1. Young, No More War, 11.
2. Green, "A World Congress For Peace," 6.
3. See V.I. Lenin, "The Impending Catastrophe and How To Combat It: Abolition of Commercial Secrecy," in The V.I. Lenin Internet
Archive .
4. In his propaganda rhetoric, Hitler utilized youthful imagery to link internationalism with decay and militant nationalism
with the youth. In a May Day speech in 1923 Hitler stated, "If the first of May is to be transferred in accordance with its
true meaning from the life of Nature to the life of peoples, then it must symbolize the renewal of the body of a people
which has fallen into senility. And in the life of peoples senility means internationalism. What is born of senility Nothing,
nothing at all. Whatever in human civilization has real value, that arose not out of internationalism, it sprang from the soul
of a single people. When peoples have lost their creative vigor, then they become international Everywhere, wherever intellectual
incapacity rules in the life of peoples, there internationalism appears… So the first of May can be only a glorification
of the national creative will over against the conception of international disintegration, of the liberation of the
nation's spirit and of its economic outlook from the infection of internationalism. That is in the last resort the question of
the restoration to health of peoples." See Adolf Hitler, "Munich: Speech Of May 1, 1923," in the Online Hitler Historical
Museum: Hitler's Speeches Archive .
5. In a recent review of Mussolini's imperial policy Willie Thompson reflected, "However, when it came to racism in the
broader sense of relations with people of colour, of conviction of Europe's inherent superiority and of contempt for the
lives and property of people known as non-Europeans, of preparedness to treat them as expendable instruments, fascist attitudes
were as ferocious as could be imagined. Similar outlooks were characteristic of all colonial regimes, but to the
everyday racism typically prevalent in such situations was added in the fascist case a glorification of brutality, an obsession
with ruling by fear, of responding to every hint of real or imagined resistance with sadistic and generalized terror.
Such responses were personally encouraged and indeed insisted upon by Mussolini himself." See Willie Thompson, "The
Fascist Regime and the Abyssinia Crisis," Socialist History 28 (Spring, 2006): 2.
6. Young, No More War, 7-8.
7. National Organizational Committee of the YWL, "Manifesto and Program," The Young Worker: Official Organ of the
Young Workers League (Formerly Youth) 1, no.2 (March-April, 1922): 10-11.
8. Dimitrov, "The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International," 10.
9. Georgi Dimitrov, "Fascism Is War," in The United Front: The Struggle Against Fascism And War (San Francisco: Proletarian
Publishers, 1975), 262, 263, 268, 269.
10. Wolf Michal, "The Secretary of the Socialist Youth of France and Munich," Our Youth: Discussion Magazine of the
Young Communist League 1, no.8 (November, 1938): 22, 23, 25, 27.
11. West, "The YCL Speaks to the Catholics," 24.
12. Browder, "Your Generation and Mine," 4.
13. Maurice Thorez, "A New Youth Shall Rise," Young Communist Review 3, no.8 (October, 1938): 10, 12.
14. Derek Watson, "Molotov's Apprenticeship in Foreign Policy: The Triple Alliance Negotiations in 1939," Europe-Asia
Studies 52, no.4 (June, 2000): 700.
15. Throughout the summer of 1939, The World Youth Review and The Young Communist Review did not carry any articles
about or by Molotov, whereas statements from Litvinov had been regular features of previous issues. Challenge did not
carry any statements from Molotov until June 10, 1939. In an article entitled, "What's Holding Up The Pact," the YCL
highlighted themes of continuity in Soviet foreign policy, avoiding any serious discussion that the nature of Soviet policy
was changing under Molotov. See "What's Holding Up The Pact Molotov, Russia's Premier, Tells You Here," Challenge:
The Voice of Youth 5, no.23 (June 10, 1939): 4-5.
16. "The Russian View "No Inconsistency", Ambassadors See M. Molotoff From Our Special Correspondent," The London
Times no. 48391 (August 23, 1939): 12.
17. Watson, 714, 703.
18. Elie Duguet, "Youth Rises Against Aggression," World Youth Review 1, no. 5 (May, 1939): 93, 94.
19. See "Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech," in History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents
Archive .
20. NCYCLGB, "Crisis: The People's Action Can Decide the Issue," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no.34 (September 2,
1939): 1.
21. On the same day that Churchill became the new British Prime Minister the Axis powers ended the period of the "phoney
war" by invading Western Europe. This situation put the YCLGB in an awkward rhetorical and strategic position since
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