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Cartoon depiction of a popular front in the Romanian leftist and anti-fascist newspaper Cuvântul Liber, 1935
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A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault".[1][2] More generally, it is "a coalition especially of leftist political parties against a common opponent".[3][4]
The term was first used in the mid-1930s in Europe by communists concerned over the ascent of fascism in Italy and Germany, which they sought to combat by coalescing with non-communist political groupings they had previously attacked as enemies. Temporarily successful popular front governments were formed in France, Spain, and Chile in 1936.[2]
Not all political organizations who use the term "popular front" are leftist or coalitions formed to defend democratic norms (for example Popular Front of India), and not all leftist or anti-fascist coalitions use the term "popular front" in their name.
^"popular front European coalition". Britannica. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
^ ab"Popular Front". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
^"popular front". Merriam Webster. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
^Barrett, James R. (7 September 2009). "Rethinking the Popular Front". Rethinking Marxism a Journal of Economics, Culture & Society. 21 (4): 531–550. doi:10.1080/08935690903145671. S2CID 143043228. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
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