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NOTES throughout the Popular Front era they had asserted that Churchill could potentially be trusted to lead an anti-fascist People's Government if it was based on a Popular Front style coalition with Labour. Since Churchill was in power and the YCL could no longer argue that the Axis powers were going to go East to attack the Soviet Union and that this was a "phoney war," the YCL had to reframe elements of its anti-war rhetoric. Instead of attacking Churchill as they had Chamberlain, the YCL continually asserted that Churchill needed to remove all of "the Men of Munich" from his cabinet in order to form a true anti-fascist government. See "We Don't Want Any Gestapo Here: They're Going to See Him About the Men of Munich," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 6, no.30 (July 25, 1940): 1. 22. Gates, "The Nature of This War," 4, 24, 25. 23. Unlike the traditional Leninist anti-war program that called for "revolutionary defeatism" in order to turn the "imperialist war into a civil war" through socialist revolution, the YCI did not direct its national sections to take such a traditional stance. The Trotskyist movement took notice of the communist position against war and its divergence with Leninism, asserting instead that their own positions represented a correct Leninist stance by calling for international socialist revolution. Prior to the outbreak of war, the Trotskyist Fourth International denounced those who questioned if "revolutionary defeatism" might be an incorrect tactic to apply in any war with the fascist powers. The Trotskyists condemned such assertions as "extremely dangerous concession to the social-patriots," countering that even in wars with the fascist powers that "all the fundamental rules of proletarian "defeatist" policy in relation to imperialist war retain their full force." Once war was officially declared the Trotskyists mocked the communist's essentially pacifist position in a scathing article entitled "Will The Communist Party Go Communist" The Trotskyists insisted that by not embracing "revolutionary defeatism" that the Comintern position had "nothing in common with Lenin’s policy." In other articles the Trotskyists went on to denounce the communist call for a negotiated peace stating that "revolutionary socialist’s support neither imperialist war nor imperialist peace." See Editorial Board of the Russian Opposition, "A Step Towards Social-Patriotism: On the Position of the Fourth International Toward the Struggle Against War and Fascism," in The New International Internet Archive ; "Will The Communist Party Go Communist," in Worker's International News Internet Archive: 1938-1949 ; "Spotlight on Centrism," in Worker's International News Internet Archive: 1938- 1949 . 24. ECYCI, "Manifesto of the Young Communist International," Young Communist Review 4, no.9 (December, 1939): 12, 13. 25. Mick Bennett, Youth and the War (London: YCLGB, 1940), 13,14. 26. YCLGB, Make Life Worth While: A Course For Members of the Young Communist League (London: YCLGB, 1944), 13. 27. See Earl Browder, Eugene Dennis, Roy Hudson and John Williamson, Shall the Communist Party Change Its Name (New York: NCCPUSA, 1944). 28. Ottanelli, 215. 29. Raymond Guyot, "The Unity of the Working Class Youth Will Triumph," World Youth Review 1, no. 7 (July, 1939): 133. 30. Gil Green, "Creative Marxism," 5, 27. 183
BIBLIOGRAPHY PRIMARY SOURCES ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS: Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland Centre For Political Song CPGB Scottish Committee Archive The Gallacher Memorial Library The James & Martin Milligan Collection The Norman & Janey Buchan Collection The Spanish Civil War Collection Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, Michigan, USA American Radicalism Special Collections People's History Museum Labour History Archive, Manchester, England British Fascism and Anti-Fascism Collection Communist Party of Great Britain Collection Labour Party Collection Margot Kettle Papers Socialist Sunday School Collection Spanish Civil War Collection William Gillies Papers Young Communist League of Great Britain Collection Reference Center For Marxist Studies, New York City, New York, USA American Student Union Collection Young Communist League Collection University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Hatcher Graduate Library Spanish Civil War Microfilm Collection Labadie Collection University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain Aldred Collection Labour History Collection Working Class Movement Library, Salford, England, Great Britain British Fascism and Anti-Fascism Collection 184
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INTRODUCTION: COMMUNIST HISTORIOGRA
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