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Socialists should understand that it is their duty to do anything in their power directly or indirectly to assist the revolutionary opposition within fascist countries.

— Hugh Gaitskell

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It must be admitted that politically communism is the same [as fascism].

The success of the middle class alliance depended on the acceptance by the working class element of middle class leadership and middle class ideas.

Chartism: An Introductory Essay (1929)

Fascism has become the last defence of a crumbling economic system. It is the last bulwark of Capitalism.

Notes for Lecturers to the LLY [Labour League of Youth (1938)

I was a witness of two civil wars and their ghastly and tragic consequences, and I learnt, as never before, to value the freedom of British political traditions.

The destruction of this inequality, the creating and maintaining of a society in which it cannot exist becomes the essential and direct purpose of all Socialist activity.

Socialism and Wage Policy (1933)

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