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> Despite its fundamental political problem, the Popular Front, -clip-
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> CB: What was its fundamental political problem ?
Subordination of the left and working class movement to the left-wing of
the bourgeoisie. Two stages theory.
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2003w15/msg00273.htm
> ...The popular front as applied to actual social struggles involved an
allegiance to the program of a sector of the ruling class, and resulted in
the disorientation and sometimes the destruction of independent working
class organizations.
http://www.trotsky.net/trotsky_year/popularfrontism.html Trotsky's critique of Popular Frontism http://members.aol.com/RevolutionTruth/popfront.htm Introducing Revolution & Truth: Trotskyism, the United Front and the Popular Front: Against Class Collaboration and Sterile Sectarianism bi Ian Donovan now in the CPGB, http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/2003.html -- Michael Pugliese American imperialism has been made plausible and attractive in part by the insistence that it is not imperialistic. Harold Innis, 1948 http://www.monthlyreview.org/sr2004.htm