Class War

on

the Home Front




Originally published by Wildcat in 1986

Comprising articles from the pages of Solidarity, the paper of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, and commentaries by Wildcat.

 




"This pamphlet chronicles the hidden history of revolutionary opposition to the Second World War through a collection of articles which originally appeared in the APCF's newspaper, Solidarity, between 1939 and 1944. Other articles include contributions from Paul Mattick and Anton Pannekoek.

"The powerful arguments put forward by the APCF to support their case that all out struggle against capitalism is the ONLY meaningful opposition to war are as true and as relevant today as ever before. Their call for the 'destruction of ALL Imperialism by the Proletarian World Revolution' must be taken up to prevent the horrors of the last war being repeated again." Wildcat 1986.




Contents

Brief History of the APCF

Part One: Principles and Tactics

APCF Aims

Principles and Tactics of the APCF

Dictatorship

To Anti-Parliamentarians

The People's Convention

Workers v the State

Part Two: The Civil War in Spain

An Armistice?

The Friends of Durruti Accuse

Part Three: The Second World War

Resist War

John McGovern and War

A Second Front

The 20 Year Pact

Freedom of Speech and the Daily Worker

 Socialists and the Army

While Workers Die

The Historic Consequences of the War

India

Looting at Luton

The Royal Sacrifice

Gandhi's Pacifism Exposed

Axis Workers Show the Way

Events and Trends by Icarus

War and Fascism

The Turning Tide

Part Four: Party and Class

Leadership by James Kennedy

The Party and the Working Class by Anton Pannekoek

The Party and the Working Class by Frank Maitland

Our Reply (APCF)

The Party and the Working Class by Paul Mattick

Do the Workers Need a Party? By Abraham Zeigler

For Workers Councils by Frank Maitland

Where We Stand (APCF/WRL)

Afterword by Wildcat





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Pamphlets on the site include:
The German Revolution: a series of pamphlets, including the Wilhelmshaven Revolt by Icarus, The Origins of the Movement for Workers Councils in Germany by Workers Voice

Wildcat pamphlets How Socialist is the SWP? and Capitalism and its Revolutionary Destruction

Workers Voice's Communism v Reforms - two articles by Sylvia Pankhurst and Anton Pannekoek on the founding programme of the Communist Party of Ireland, with an introduction detailing some of the history of the Cork Soviet

A Day in the Life of the Car a communist critique of the car culture

Plus pamphlets by Subversion on the Labour Party and Ireland

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