[lbo-talk] RE: Jihad vs. the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Wed Apr 9 11:24:40 PDT 2003


"One Abraham Lincoln Brigade vet here says near as they can tell about 60% of the U.S. volunteers were members of the CPUSA. The International Brigades as a whole, of course, came from all over, including Latin America and Europe, and included a lot of people who had dealt with fascism first hand (the Italian and German brigades most prominently). I suppose you could say that they were 'Stalinist' in the same sense that Russians who fought the Germans to a standstill a few years later were 'Stalinist.' Not sure why you'd want to use the term there, though."

Jenny Brown

Well, not to rehash the Spanish War, but there were Stalinists in the Republican army, and the Stalinist Daily Worker smeared Trotskyist and anarchist fighters as pro-fascist. Read "Cockburn in Spain" and see Claud Cockburn's shameful participation in this effort.

DP



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