COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN (C.P.G.B.) – 12 publications attacking Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.

PAYNE, W. A. London Busman reports on Fascism. London: European Workers' Anti-Fascist Congress, British Delegation Committee: London: [n.d., but 1933]. 8vo (188 x 125 mm.), 12pp. Original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted, lower cover soiled and lightly creasing, a few other leaves lightly creased).

COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN. “Drowned in a sea of working class activity.” September 9th. London: [n.d., but 1934]. 8vo (215 x 140 mm.), 16pp. Original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted, minor creasing and soiling).

– The National Government is the pacemaker for Fascism. London: [n.d., but c. 1935]. Handbill (135 x 224 mm.), 2pp. (Faint creasefolds.) Very rare flyer accusing Stanley Baldwin’s National Government of militarising the police, gagging workers with a Sedition Bill, and encouraging the growth of Mosley’s Blackshirts. The date of the flyer can be ascertained by references to Olympia, when CPGB members and other workers were engaged in violent protests at the BUF rally at London’s Olympia in 1934, and also by the reference to Baldwin, who became Prime Minister in 1935.

– Fight the Pro-Nazis. London: 7 August 1942. Bifolium leaf (190 x 127 mm.), 4pp. (Very light spotting.)

– Keep Mosley in Prison. London: [n.d., but 1943]. 8vo (172 x 105 mm.), 8pp. With another version re-titled Put Mosley Back in Prison, but with identical text reset onto a slightly larger trifolium leaf of 6pp., published by the Lancashire & Cheshire District Committee Communist Party.

MONTAGU, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel. Blackshirt Brutality. The story of Olympia. London: Workers' Bookshop, [n.d., but 1935]. 8vo (210 x 140 mm.), 32 pp. original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted, extremities faintly creased).

HANNINGTON, Wal. Fascist Danger and the Unemployed. Second impression. London: August 1939. 8vo (215 x 140 mm.), 16pp. Original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted, light vertical creasefold).

DOUGLAS, J.L. Spotlight on Fascism. Men behind Mosley; culture killers, landlord, leader and Captain Kidd; the plan to goosestep over Europe. London: CPGB, [n.d., but c. 1940]. 8vo (215 x 140 mm.), 24pp. Stapled self wrappers (staples rusted, rear cover and spine a trifle creased).

POLLITT, Harry. End Jew-baiting … reprinted from the ‘Daily Worker’. Manchester: CPGB, [n.d., but c. 1944]. Handbill (215 x 126 mm.) With another similar reprint entitled from the Daily Worker entitled ‘Anti-Semitism; plain speaking.’

ANON. Anti-Semitism – a Nazi Weapon. London: A. Massie for Marx House, [n.d., but c. 1940]. Bifolium leaf (215 x 140 mm.), 4pp. (faint creasing.) ‘This leaflet is a popular cheap reprint of number eight in the Educational Commentary series of Study and Discussion Notes issued by Marx House in association with the “Daily Worker”’ (colophon).

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