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32:-sponsored International Union of Revolutionary Writers (previously known as the International Bureau for Revolutionary Literature; also known as the Writers' International), established in 1934 and continued until 1938. 523: 130:, arguing such expensive celebrations were inappropriate at a time of high poverty and unemployment. The editorial was signed by several prominent writers and artists, including 59:
The first issue published a position statement by the Writers' International, which declared Britain's economy and culture were in a state of collapse, expressed opposition to
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in the February 1935 issue, and opinions on the nature of literature. The magazine carried articles on politics and culture, along with some short fiction and poetry.
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there is a line at which criticism ends and destructive attacks begin, and we regret that this line separates us both from
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Visions and Blueprints: Avant-garde Culture and Radical Politics in Early Twentieth-century Europe
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then invited writers to respond. The issues that followed published responses, such as the one by
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recorded the names of all contributors to the magazine and kept detailed files on several of
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and the broad alliance against Fascism", in Edward Timms and Peter Collier,
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Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class, and Ideology in the 1930s Cultural Politics
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carried articles by a number of noted left-wing writers, including
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The Proletarian Moment: The Controversy over Leftism in Literature
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Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations
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defended the decision not to carry the advertisement, stating "
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Defunct political magazines published in the United Kingdom
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which had defended Trotsky from attacks made on him during
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Craig Werner, "Left Review and Left Literary Theory" in
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Christa Knellwolf; Glyn P. Norton; Christopher (2001).
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Richard C. S. Trahair; Robert L. Miller, eds. (2012).
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contributors as possible "security risks", including
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Index

New Left Review
Comintern
Montagu Slater
Edgell Rickword
Amabel Williams-Ellis
Tom Wintringham
Randall Swingler
fascism
imperialism
Soviet Union
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
W. H. Auden
Winifred Holtby
Naomi Mitchison
Storm Jameson
Herbert Read
James Hanley
Arthur Calder-Marshall
Eric Gill
Silver Jubilee
George V
A. L. Lloyd
Pearl Binder
Tom Wintringham
Eric Gill
Ralph Fox
Anthony Blunt
MI5
C. Day-Lewis
Rex Warner

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