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Escaping the drive to war requires unlikely allies
RICHARD SAVILLE looks at some lessons from the 1930s, when progressives sought support for peace from all sides of the class and political spectrum
Rajani Palme Dutt in 1943
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IN 1936, Ranaji Palme Dutt, the great Anglo-Indian Marxist, published his World Politics 1918-1936 alerting workers to the dangers of a new and catastrophic world war and calling on working people to form a “world peace front.”
There are remarkable similarities to the present. Dutt noted how the institutions and agreements established immediately after WWI had crumbled.
“World economic stabilisation has dissolved … The League of Nations has revealed its weaknesses … new questions occupy the centre of the stage today: questions of the so-called Haves and Have Not powers … of the redistribution of raw materials … of rearmament … on all sides, the world is felt to be drifting to catastrophe without control.”
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