By the mid 1930s a widespread working class anti fascist movement was established in Britain, in response to the development of the British Union of Fascists, and the growth of fascist movements in Europe. When the Spanish government was attacked by the country’s fascist generals, many from Britain’s anti fascist movement took up arms to defend the Spanish Republic in the British battalion of the International Brigade.
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