41.   Thus there was no substantial difference in the labour movement about the nature of fascism, but much disagreement about how to deal with it.

42.   Its attitudes towards and behaviour within the broad labour movement steadily antagonized activists.

43.   The Comintern described Social Democracy as social fascism and forced its constituent sections to break off all relations with the official Labour movement.

44.   The rigid application of the social fascist line did more to alienate the Communists from the labour movement than any previous actions.

45.   The Minority Movement undeniably limited Communist influence in the Labour movement and earned the undying hostility of most trade-union officials.

46.   Thus during the worst crisis in British industrial history neither the labour movement nor its radical Left were able to take advantage of the situation.

47.   The entire labour movement was under the control of social fascism.

48.   Even here the Communists had little success, their activity remaining on the third level of faction fighting and street corner abuse of the rest of the labour movement.

49.   This was the United Front from Below in its purest form, an organized attempt to replace the official sections of the Labour movement by bodies under Communist domination.

50.   The Communist leaders were desperately trying to establish contacts with the rest of the labour movement, despite their continued adherence to the social fascist line.