Comintern formulates popular front policy

At its seventh world congress in Moscow on 25 July 1935 the „Communist International“ (Comintern) repudiates its previously definitive „theory of social fascism“ classifying social democracy as a „leftist variety of fascism“. The theory had brought about an implacable animosity between the two political currents. From now on the Communists offer to join the Social Democrats in a common struggle against fascism within a broad „anti-Fascist popular front“.

© Marxistische Bibliothek The platform at the comintern's VIIth world congress, decorated with portraits of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wladimir I. Lenin und Josef Stalin (left to right)