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===Early years===

===Early years===

In the years between its foundation and the outbreak of the [[Second World War]] the CPGB was successful in building up membership and support. It was able to benefit from the seeming inability of more mainstream parties to successfully act against rising unemployment and economic crisis, and against the rise of [[Fascism]]. It alternated between policies (decided in Moscow and applied worldwide, even if contradicting local political circumstances) of sectarian opposition to other left-of-centre parties, and attempts to build up a 'popular front' with socialists and social democrats. It also attracted the support of many intellectuals and was able to pose as a revolutionary artistic vanguard. Communists contributed much of the manpower (and most of the political control) to the Clement Attlee Brigade of British volunteers in the [[International Brigades]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]].

In the years between its foundation and the outbreak of the [[Second World War]] the CPGB was successful in building up membership and support. It was able to benefit from the seeming inability of more mainstream parties to successfully act against rising unemployment and economic crisis, and against the rise of [[Fascism]]. It alternated between policies (decided in Moscow and applied worldwide, even if contradicting local political circumstances) of sectarian opposition to other left-of-centre parties, and attempts to build up a 'popular front' with socialists and social democrats. It also attracted the support of many intellectuals and was able to pose as a [[Revolutionary Vanguard|revolutionary artistic vanguard]]. Communists contributed much of the manpower (and most of the political control) to the Clement Attlee Brigade of British volunteers in the [[International Brigades]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]].

===The CPGB and the Second World War===

===The CPGB and the Second World War===