In the mid 30’s the Communists began looking for a popular culture with
national roots and discovered folk music. The US experience, the anti-fascist
songs of Spain and Germany, and the new awareness of the rebel tradition
in Canadian history all contributed to the emergence of a culture of resistance
in the context of the Popular Front.
Album cover of 6 Songs for Democracy – Discos de las Brigadas Internationales (songs from the Spanish Civil War)
Cover of the pamphlet, Hello Canada! Canada’s Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, 1837-1937, telling the stories of members of this Canadian anti-fascist battalion in Spain during the Spanish Civil War
Photograph of Ernst Busch with comrades from the XI Brigade of anti-fascist forces in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. As printed in Ernst Busch: Canciones de las Brigadas Internationales, (VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, Berlin: Aurora-Schallplatten, 1963). Note: Busch is the only man in the photo not in uniform.
Cover of the book, Soviet Writers’ Congress 1934: The Debate on Socialist Realism and Modernism in the Soviet Union, with essays by Maxim Gorky, Karl Radek, Nicholai Buhkarin, Andrey Zhdanov and others, (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977)
Lyrics to Freiheit, a Spanish Civil War era anti-fascist song, as printed in the NFLY songbook, Toward Singing Tomorrows, (Toronto: National Federation of Labor Youth, 1951), page 26
Album cover of 6 Songs for Democracy – Discos de las Brigadas Internationales (songs from the Spanish Civil War)
Cover of the book, Soviet Writers’ Congress 1934: The Debate on Socialist Realism and Modernism in the Soviet Union, with essays by Maxim Gorky, Karl Radek, Nicholai Buhkarin, Andrey Zhdanov and others, (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977)
Lyrics to Freiheit, a Spanish Civil War era anti-fascist song, as printed in the NFLY songbook, Toward Singing Tomorrows, (Toronto: National Federation of Labor Youth, 1951), page 26