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

[Dennis Perrin]

"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