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Elinor Taylor

Elinor Taylor is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Westminster and the author of The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934–1940

Reclaiming the People’s War

Though it has recently become a byword for reactionary nostalgia, the Second World War was in certain crucial ways an extension of the ‘Red Decade’ of the 1930s. A modern anti-fascist Left must reclaim this inheritance — and avoid its shortcomings.