Transatlantic Antifascisms: From the Spanish Civil War to the End of World War II by Michael Seidman

Author:Michael Seidman [Seidman, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

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Beyond Fascism and Antifascism

Working and Not Working

Although organized labor throughout the Atlantic world would become staunchly antifascist, the position of rank-and-file workers was much more ambiguous. As has been seen, wage laborers in Barcelona did not always sacrifice for the antifascist cause, and, regardless of the political circumstances, their resistance to wage labor prefigured that of British and American workers in World War II. During that conflict, French workers operated in a different context where their refusal to work – flight, strikes, absenteeism, lateness, slowdowns, and, less frequently, sabotage – was implicitly antifascist. Yet in France and throughout Axis-occupied Europe, social dissidence – whether resistance to wage labor, black marketeering, or theft – was unable to defeat wartime fascism. Only the massive state power of the Allies could accomplish that goal.

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