Formed in 1933 as Nazism came to power in Germany, the American League Against War and Fascism issued this primer on fascism as one of its first publications.

Fascism. Published by the American League Against War and Fascism. New York, 1933.

Contents: STOP FASCISM! A Fascist World? I THE NATURE OF FASCISM, 1. Political, 2. Economic, 3. Emotional, 4. Social, II THE BEGINNINGS OF FASCISM IN THE UNITED STATES 1. Fascist and Pseudo-Fascist Organisations, 2. Emotional Background, 3. Economic Background, 4. Political Background, 5. Social Background, Ill HOW CAN WE STOP FASCISM? 1. The Susceptible Groups, 2. Approach to All Groups, 3. Approach to the Working Class, 4. Approach to the Middle-Classes, WE CAN STOP FASCISM.

FIGHT Against War and Fascism was the monthly newspaper of the broad-based, but Communist-inspired, American League Against War and Fascism formed in 1933 as Nazism came to power in Germany. The paper and the League attracted fairly wide support and hosted many events in the 1930s. In 1937, reflecting the Popular Front turn, the name of the group was changed to the American League for Peace and Democracy and the journal to The Fight for Peace and Democracy. Both the paper and the organization closed in the wake of 1939’s Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

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