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The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created the left as we know it today

In the middle years of the Great Depression the antifascist movement became a global political force powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology geography race language and nationality Joseph Fronczak shows how socialists liberals communists anarchists and others achieved a semblance of unity in the fight against fascism Depressionera antifascists were populist militant and internationalist They understood fascism in global terms and they were determined to fight it on local terms In the United States antifascists fought against fascism on the streets of cities such as Chicago and New York and they connected their own fights to the ones raging in Germany Italy and Spain

As he traces the global trajectory of the antifascist movement Fronczak argues that its most significant legacy is its creation of the left as we know it today an international conglomeration of people committed to a shared politics of solidarity