Word: antifascist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand we might have been satisfied if the IUS, which was supposed to be a 'progressive, antifascist, democratic organization' would have helped the Spanish students in their underground struggle against Franco...
Tsumoru Fujii had been at Ulan Ude near Lake Baikal. His story was typical. This P.W. camp was run by a seven-man "antifascist committee" made up of captives who had gone through a two-month political school at Nakhodka, near Vladivostok. Five nights a week, Fujii and his fellow prisoners would trudge off to hear a two-hour lecture. Last November, prisoners were told how Henry Wallace had been defrauded of the U.S. presidency by vote-buying and illegal balloting organized by Democrats and Republicans. Recently they were told that MacArthur was forcibly taking rice from Japanese farmers...
...through your letter you refer to fascism, stating that your party is antifascist. Who are you kidding? There are no bigger fascists than the Communists. The only difference between Stalin and Hitler is that Stalin went Hitler one better . . . It was the Communist Party that joined hands with the Nazis to break up the Socialist Party and the trade union movement in Germany . . . Don't try to propagandize people who know the score...
...young (33), able leader of the new Burmese nation, and seven fellow Cabinet ministers. Once a Japanese collaborator (like most Burmese leaders), little, bullet-headed Aung San had later helped the British organize a resistance movement among Burmans. He assumed the title Bogyok (General). As head of the A.F.P.F.L. (AntiFascist People's Freedom League), he had risen to power by staging civil servants' strikes, teachers' strikes, police strikes. (Said some British critics, after his death, "Since the A.F.P.F.L. cooked the cake [of violence], no wonder they have to eat it.") Last winter he headed a delegation...
When the committee chairman, New Jersey's Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, directed him to desist and be sworn, he refused. Thomas warned: "Remember, you are a guest of the country." This was too much. Eisler began beating on the table and yelling, "I am an antiFascist. I am not a guest of the country. I am a political prisoner...