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The Left in Canada in World War II

Riddell, John; Angus, Ian Angus
http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/History/Left-in-WW2.htm

Publisher:  Socialist History
Date Written:  09/10/2004
Year Published:  2004  
Resource Type:  Article

What we call World War II encompassed many different wars, many of them progressive: the Soviet struggle against Nazi invasion, the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Europe, and the colonial liberation struggle in China, India, and elsewhere. But Canada's war had little relationship to these progressive struggles and was not anti-fascist in character. It formed part of what Leon Trotsky termed a struggle of imperialist slaveholders for a new division of the globe.

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Within North America, Canada was a bastion of reaction. In the 1930s there was no breakthrough here by unionism, no legislated labor code, no New Deal.

In 1939 Canada was still gripped by depression, with 23% of the work force unemployed.

Most working people dreaded war. In the prewar years, the CCF, predecessor of the NDP, responded with a pacifist stance: support to the League of Nations but opposition to Canada's entering an imperialist war.

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