Claiming working people face the imminent danger of fascism taking power — in France, Hungary, Italy, Argentina and the U.S. — Stalinist parties of all stripes, Social Democrats and middle-class radicals are resurrecting proposals for a 1930s-style Popular Front Against Fascism.
This scheme ties the working class to an alliance with the so-called progressive wing of the capitalist class, the very class whose rule gives rise, at times of deepening crisis and sharpening class struggle, to fascist forces. It led to a wave of bloody defeats in the 1930s, including the victory of Generalissimo Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War....
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