popular front

In European politics, any coalition of working-class and middle-class political parties united to defend democracy against an expected fascist assault. The policy of a “united front” against fascism was announced at the communist Third International (1935); it was to include not only communists and socialists but also liberals, moderates, and even conservatives. Popular-front governments were formed in France and Spain in 1936, but the financial consequences of the reforms undertaken by the French government, under Léon Blum, proved its undoing, and the Spanish government was brought down by Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

8) It was precisely this heterogeneity, articulated in the pages of the magazine, and featured at public events like the tribute to Robeson, that would demonstrate how prominent radical continuities could mirror the black Popular Front of previous decades and persist into this period of the African American freedom struggle.

"Filling the gap": intergenerational black radicalism and the Popular ... by Rocksborough-Smith, Ian / Afro-Americans in New York Life and History

Also attending were leaders of openly Marxist-Leninist terror groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Kurdish People's Party, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.

Iran's global terror network: from Iraq to Afghanistan to South ... by Jasper, William F. / The New American

Fine is careful not to claim that these REO Joe's are more representative of American working people than the Popular Front children of the immigrants that loom so large in twentieth century labor historiography, but the implication is clearly there that understanding these folks should help labor historians better understand the recent trajectory of American workers.

The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A by Oestreicher, Richard / Journal of Social History

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