The Communists and the Republic of Spain

The French popular front government which was basically the same collection of Marxists and bourgeois liberals that was ruling in Spain got overthrown. They at first made moves to supply Spain with arms but England said no because England's policy this is what undergirds appeasement. The communists were kidding themselves too they were kidding themselves that there was a basic feeling among the repel of the bourgeois states that fascism had to be defeated, he says.