"Communists love Canada!": The Communist Party of Canada, the "people" and the Popular Front, 1933-1939

From: Journal of Canadian Studies | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Manley, John | Copyright information

Like all member parties of the Communist International (Comintern), the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) embarked on a dramatic change of political direction - the Popular Front Against Fascism - after the Seventh (and last) Comintern Congress in summer 1935. Declaring that Fascism was now an imminent and equal threat to the Soviet Union, the democratic world and progressive civilization, shelved its aspiration to lead the advanced sections of the proletariat in direct revolutionary struggle f...

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