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Description: | This recording of a speech by the Communist MP Willie Gallacher (1881-1965) was distributed by the "Daily Worker". The "Daily Worker" (founded in 1930) was the house newspaper of the Communist Party. Gallacher, a leading figure in the "Red Clydeside" period of Glaswegian radicalism, was a founder-member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920. He served as MP for West Fife from 1935 (when this recording was made) to 1950. Here, he attacks the policies of the Tory-dominated National Government. He then proposes a "United Front" against Fascism between Communists and other leftists, whom Communists had previously been instructed to regard as "Social Fascists" by Moscow. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Power and Politics | Temporal: | 1935 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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