Joel A Lewis Youth Against Fascism.pdf

YOUTH AGAINST FASCISM
79. George Poole, "Make Britain Safe: All Youth Should be Allowed to Join in ARP," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4, no.
47 (December 3, 1938): 4.
80. Anonymous TA Soldier, "Make Britain Safe: The Enemy Has Friends in High Places," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4,
no. 42 (October 29, 1938): 5.
81. "Biggest Army in the World is Democratic," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 13 (April 1, 1939): 8.
82. "Make Britain Safe: Policy is the Keystone in the Fabric of Defence," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4, no. 43 (November
5, 1938): 4.
83. "Make Britain Safe: We Need The Right Policy, Strong Youth, Democratic Army, Bomb-Proof Shelters, A United Democratic
People," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4, no. 44 (November 12, 1938): 4.
84. J.B. Urquhart, "The Youngest Candidate," Challenge: The Paper For Britain's Youth 1, no.10 (November, 1935): 4.
85. H. Donald Moore, "I Believe in the Freedom Our Forefathers Fought For: Let Us Unite Before it is Too Late," Challenge:
The Voice of Youth 4, no.18 (May 5, 1938): 5.
86. "Return a Labour Government," Challenge: The Paper For Britain's Youth 1, no.10 (November, 1935): 5.
87. Eric Organ, "Youth Speaks on the Elections," Challenge: The Paper For Britain's Youth 1, no.10 (November, 1935): 5.
88. Cyril Lacey, "My Message to Challenge Readers," Challenge: The Paper For Britain's Youth 1, no.11 (December, 1935):
7.
89. Mick Bennett, "No One Can Stand Aside: Join the Young Communist League – Help Defeat the Government," Challenge:
The Voice of Youth 4, no.9 (March 3, 1938): 5.
90. John Gollan, "This is What a People's Government Would do For Peace," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4, no.11 (March
17, 1938): 5.
91. In his 1969 publication entitled The People's War: Britain 1939-1945, Angus Calder explored the relationship between
democracy, the Labour Party and voluntary service for anti-fascism. In a later review of this work, Ira Katznelson's affirmed
Calder's contentions that only Labour could have negotiated the "two competing valuations of the role of class and
nation, the image of the united national family and the class image of 'us' and 'them.'" See Angus Calder, The People's
War: Britain 1939-1945 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1969); Ira Katznelson, "Book Review of The People's War: Britain
1939-1945," Political Science Quarterly 86, no.3 (September, 1971): 526-528.
92. Mick Bennett and John L. Douglas, "For a People's Government of Peace and Social Advance," Our Youth: Discussion
Magazine of the Young Communist League 1, no.2 (May, 1938): 17.
93. John Gollan, "The Opponents of Fascism Are Becoming Stronger," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4, no. 48 (December
10, 1938): 5.
94. "Service As Free Men or As Slaves," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 4 (January 28, 1939): 6.
95. Wal Hannington, "Do You Want to be Forced Into "Labour Service," to be Taken From Your Home, Sent to Militaristic
Training Camps," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4, no. 9 (March 3, 1938): 3.
96. "What Have You To Say About It," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 4 (January 28, 1939): 5.
97. "The Youth Trade Union Movement," Our Youth: Discussion Magazine of the Young Communist League 2, no.4 (April,
1939): 131.
98. Bennett, "There Will Be no Democracy," 8.
99. "The BYPA," 123.
100. "How They Are Getting Together," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 11 (March 18, 1939): 2.
101. "The National Youth Campaign," 135.
102. Mick Bennett and John L. Douglas, "On the Youth Charter of Social Justice," Our Youth: Discussion Magazine of the
Young Communist League 1, no.2 (May, 1938): 21.
103. A.K. "The National Parliament of Youth," World Youth Review 1, no. 3 (March, 1939): 59.
104. ECYCLGB, "Principles of Leadership and Some Ideas on Mass Work," Our Youth: Discussion Magazine of the Young
Communist League 2, no.3 (March, 1939): 78.
105. Mick Bennett, "The Youth Pilgrimage To London," World Youth Review 1, no. 3 (March, 1939): 48.
106. Mick Bennett, "The Youth Pilgrimage to London Part 2," World Youth Review 1, no. 4 (April, 1939): 74.
107. YCLGB, Youth on the March (London: YCLGB, 1939), 10.
108. Bennett, "The Youth Pilgrimage To London," 48.
109. Bennett, "There Will Be no Democracy," 8.
110. "100 Years Ago: Song of the Lower Classes," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 5 (February 4, 1939): 10.
111. John Douglas, "Nine Days That Shook England," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4, no. 35 (September 10, 1938): 10.
112. John Gollan, "Our Heritage is Democracy: Unite to Defend It," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4, no. 16 (April 21, 1938):
7.
113. British communists asserted, as did many other intellectuals of the thirties, that "the burning of books outside Berlin University"
and "the exiling of hundreds of intellectuals, have caused other countries to regard Nazi as a synonym for barbarian."
Publications like Left Review were designed specifically to counter fascist attacks upon modernist culture by
bringing together artists, intellectuals, poets and writers to promote anti-fascist politics and democratic culture. See Alexander
Henderson, "What the Nazis Have Done For Culture," Left Review 3, no.6 (July, 1937): 325.
114. Peter Toenning, "Growing Criminality of German Youth," World Youth Review 1, no. 3 (March, 1939): 61.
115. "Young Intelligentsia of the Country of Highest Culture," World Youth Review 1, no. 4 (April, 1939): 82.
116. Harry Ireland, "What's Wrong With the League in Glasgow," Our Youth: Discussion Magazine of the Young Communist
League 1, no.4 (July, 1938): 26.
117. W.W., "All Change Here: Poetry and People," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 4, no. 49 (December 17, 1938): 3.
118. "New Auguries of Innocence (After William Blake)," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 1 (January 7, 1939): 10.
119. Miles Carpenter, "The Heart Remembers When the Mind Forgets," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 14 (April 8,
1939): 6.
120. ECYCLGB, "Planning For the Campaign," 11.
121. Robert Sayers, The Road to Victory: Marching Song of the Youth! (London: People's Songs, 1938), 1-2.
122. George LeBaron, "Big Film Shocker For Hitler," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no. 19 (May 13, 1939): 8.
123. A critique of leisure opportunities was not a new phenomenon for the YCL. The Leninist YCLGB had continually pushed
a critique of "worker's sport vs. boss' sport" which was used by the bosses to "distract the workers' attention from things
that matter, to draw young workers under militaristic influences." See William Rust, What the Young Communist League
Stands For (London: YCLGB, 1925), 20-21.
124. "Our Leisure and What They Want to do With It," Challenge: The Voice of Youth 5, no.6 (February 11, 1939): 9.
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