THE
UNITED
FRONT

The Struggle Against
Fascism and War

BY

GEORGI DIMITROFF
General Secretary,
Communist International


Proletarian Publishers  San Francisco
1975


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (September 1999)


Contents

I.
 

THE FASCIST OFFENSIVE AND THE TASKS OF THE
COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL


9


1.
2.
3.
 
4.

Fascism and the Working Class
United Front of the Working Class Against Fascism
Consolidation of the Communist Parties and the
 Struggle for Political Unity of the Proletariat
Conclusion

9
30
 
82
91

II.

UNITY OF THE WORKING CLASS AGAINST FASCISM

94

III.
 
 

THE PRESENT RULERS OF THE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES
ARE BUT TEMPORARY; THE REAL MASTER OF THE WORLD
IS THE PROLETARIAT


 
130

IV.

UNITED ACTION OF THE PROLETARIAT

142

V.

YOUTH AGAINST FASCISM

148

VI.

REPLY TO SPANISH SOCIALISTS

153

VII.

THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF GERMAN FASCISM

155

VIII.

SILENCE IS IMPOSSISLE -- ACTION IS WANTED

163

IX.

THE UNITED FRONT AGAINST THE WAR-MONGERS

169

X.

THE STRUGGLE FOR PEACE

172

XI.
 

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL AND THE TRIAL OF THE
TERRORISTS


186

XII.
 

THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMUNIST
PARTY OF CHINA


192

XIII.

THE PEOPLE'S FRONT

197

XIV.

ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW YEAR

217

XV.

THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF Stato Operaio

221

XVI.

THE SUPREME DEMAND OF THE PRESENT MOMENT

225

XVII.

THE LESS0NS OF ALMERIA

239

XVIII.
 
 

ON UNITY OF ACTION: CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE
COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND THE LABOR AND SOC-
IALIST INTERNATIONAL


 
245

XIX.

A YEAR OF HEROIC STRUGGLE OF THE SPANISH PEOPLE

253

XX.

FASCISM IS WAR

262

XXI.
 

THE SOVIET UNION AND THE WORKING CLASSES OF THE
CAPITALIST COUNTRIES


270


INDEX

283





 
 
 
 
 

The reports, speeches and articles by Georgi Dimitroff, General Secretary of the Communist International, included in this volume, cover all important international developments since 1935. The collection opens with his political report to the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International, held in August 1935, and runs through the following two years to the end of 1937. Taken together, these papers represent the development of the political line of the Communist International over this period.


 
 
 
 
 





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