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looked forward to, say¡that the fascists would kly collapse and that munism would follow. I had gone alongside an Heft turn inside Russia arced collectivisation. ‡ut suddenly the Comin| declared that "the -ed had changed" - reality the Kremlin -aucracy's international ments had changed low, not only were the ious 'social fascists' pored as earnest defenders Salinis in Bran. = But in B:122 class alike: 1X the dead! =* .:.: other countres Mass movement In Fate: 2in 20g men: 30e =ine cowards pone late agi a factor dident? movement. This imbare in 1936 in the elemen:: = Popular Front' see nment. consisting of The policy of this governnani 435 tamiliar: laded as its major point he call co: the "expansion :: he Spanish economy"

Bu: because the capitalal his government men: ncld the working dest ance's cordes moved This sparked off an insurrection in ahole areas of Spain particularly Catalonia which had nearly 50 of Spanish industry.

Workers took over the factories; peasants took over Soviet-type bodies that had developed and put it back under the control of the bourgeois government.

It put the factories back under the control of the capitalists.

All for the "unity" of the Popular Front.

The Spanish working class was defeated because of the role of their leadership.

All of this went alongside repression of all those who put forward a line that fought for the independence invasion of the USSR.

A similar policy was applied by the CP in Chile in the early 1970s-to devastating effect.

There, even sections of the army were brought into the "Popular Front" government as well as the bourgeoisie.

This non-class line led to the defeat of the Chilean working class.

That's why we reject the same squalid line in Britain today Please send Organiser Name .

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