"In a trade union anti-fascist publication entitled Fascism, published by the — to which the great transport workers' unions of Britain and other countries are affiliated — a writer states as follows:"Between trade unionism and National-Socialism (fascism) no compromise is possible; under National-Socialist dictatorship there is no room for free workers' organisations. To-day, after three years of fascism in Germany, there is no more difference of opinion on this point, but when in 1932 the (German) unions had to decide whether or not to engage in open struggle for their existence, they hesitated and yielded, in the hope that some miracle would save them. Their yielding proved fatal.""
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Fascism—Fight it Now
Fascism—Fight it Now (January, 1937) with a forward by , General Secretary, (NUR) and J. C. Little, President, Almagamated Engineering Union (AEU), was a pamphlet prepared for the , London, England. Its readership was hoped to be "those who have attained manhood and womanhood since 1914. ...YET TO MAKE THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE MARCH TOWARD FREEDOM AND EMANCIPATION OF THE WORKING CLASS... their young lives ...overshadowed by the Great War and its terrible aftermath." It argued that "the better c
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