From Shamefacedness to Solid Brass
From Labor Action , 14 July 1941. Those very principled people, the Socialist Workers Party (Cannonites), have re-discovered the “defense of the Soviet Union.” This event occurs under very happy auspices. for them. While Russia was busy grabbing Poland and Finland, they were also for its defense — but not so happily. The masses of people (not to speak of Churchill, Sumner Welles and Alexander Kerensky) were quite annoyed with Stalin in those days, so the principled Cannonites kept their slogan under their hats. In their public press they merely called the invasions a “crime” and “de-emphasised...