tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post3465327062730153215..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Bravery recognizedHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-83175823346747420362012-12-22T12:14:59.535+00:002012-12-22T12:14:59.535+00:00The memorialisation of the war has often included ...The memorialisation of the war has often included speculation about those politicians who were amenable to the idea of making peace with Germany and who might have been appointed to run a collaborationist government.<br /><br />Yet rarely do we hear of the people who were actively working to undermine the war effort from 1939 to mid 1941.<br />I refer, of course, to the communists and their dupes, who opposed "the bosses' imperialist war and who organised strikes - even in aircraft factories during the Battle of Britain. Ernest Bevin, a Labour trade unionist, was Minister of Labour and would not use the Defence Regulations against strikers. The habit of appeasement of militant trade unionism was born at this time and continued by the Conservatives until the advent of Mrs. Thatcher.<br /><br />Of course, once the Workers' Paradise of the Soviet Union was attacked, the comrades became keen supporters of the war effort and this rather cloaked the extent of their influence until the post war era.Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.com