MIA: Subjects: Fascism:

Marxists on Fascism

Index to the works of Marxists on the causes and nature of Fascism and how to fight it.

 


Clara Zetkin

 

Clara Zetkin on Fascism, a Comintern Discussion

1923: Resolution on Fascism Communist International Executive Committee, 1923
1923: The Struggle Against Fascism June 20, 1923, to the Third Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International
1923: Fascism

 

 

 

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci

1921:
The "Arditi del Popolo"
The Two Fascisms
The Agrarian Struggle in Italy
Parties and Masses
1924:
The Italian Crisis, part 2
Neither Fascism nor Liberalism: Sovietism!

All articles by Antonio Gramsci on Fascism

 

Leon Trotsky

On Fascism in Germany 1931-1933

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1931: Thaelmann and the “People’s Revolution”, Apr 14
Workers’ Control of Production, Aug 20
Factory Councils, Sep 12
Lessons of the “Red Referendum”, Aug 25
Germany, the Key to the International Situation, Nov 26
For a Workers” United Front Against Fascism, Dec 8

1932: What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat, Jan 27
Interview with Montag Morgen, May 12
The Only Road, Sep 14
German Bonapartism, Oct 30

1933: Before the Decision, Feb 5
The United Front for Defense: A Letter to a Social Democratic Worker, Feb 23
The Tragedy of the German Proletariat, Mar 14
Germany and the USSR, Mar 17
The German Catastrophe: The Responsibility of the Leadership, May 28
What Is National Socialism? Jun 10
How Long Can Hitler Stay?, Jun 22
It Is Necessary to Build Communist Parties and an International Anew, Jul 15
It Is Impossible to Remain in the Same International with Stalin, Jul 20

1934: Bonapartism and Fascism, Jul 15

On Rise of Fascism in France 1935-1936: “Whither France?”

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Whither France?, Nov 1934
Program of Action for France, Jun 1934
Once Again Whither France? Part I, Mar 1935
Once Again Whither France? Part II.
Committees of Action, Not People’s Front, Nov 1935
Preface to “Whither France?”, June 1936

On Fascism in Spain

Lessons of Spain: The Last Warning, Jan 1938
Bonapartism, Fascism, and War, Aug 20 1940

 


Amadeo Bordiga

Report on Fascism November 16, 1922, at the Fourth Congress of the Communist International 1922
Auschwitz, or the Great Alibi, Amadeo Bordiga, 1960

 

Georgi Dimitrov

Georgi Dimitrov

Dimitrov versus Göbbels, March 1933 — February 1934
Unity of the Working Class against Fascism, August 13, 1935
Youth Against Fascism, September 25, 1935
The People's Front, December 1935
Fascism is War, July 18 1936

 

 


James Cannon

James Cannon

On Fighting Fascism in America

Jersey City: Lesson and Warning, 1938
Fascism and The Workers’ Movement, 1954

 

 

Other authors

Georg Lukács
German intellectuals and fascism, 1930
The fascist slogan “Liberalism = Marxism”, 1931
On Fascism, 1933-42

Edward Conze and Ellen Wilkinson
Why Fascism?, 1935

Anton Pannekoek
The Role of Fascism, 1936

Giustizia e Liberta
Why Carlo Rosselli Was Assassinated, 1937

Daniel Guérin
Fascism and Big Business, 1938

Ted Grant
Why Hitler Came To Power, 1944
The Menace of Fascism, 1948

Robin Blick
Fascism in Germany: How Hitler Destroyed the World’s Most Powerful Labour Movement, 1975

Chris Harman
The beast is back, 1994

 

Mussolini. 1933. Painted by Diego Rivera

On Italian Fascism in Ethiopia

War in Africa. Italian Fascism Prepares to Enslave Ethiopia, by James W. Ford and Harry Gannes, 1935
The Struggle Against the Italo-Ethiopian War, by Batista, K.S., Peter Kerrigan, R., and J. Porter, 1935
The Italo-Ethiopian War and the Tasks of the United Front, by M. Ercoli [Palmiro Togliatti], 1935
Racism in the Service of Fascism, Empire-Building and War, by Richard Pankhurst, 2007

 



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