of abour as threaten what? And why not? George Smiley, the mole-catcher in John le Carre's spy story, is — we're led to believe. - some kind of national hero. By the same token, Anthony Blunt, the real-life mole who has just surfaced, is depicted as a traitor. leading to the formation government, led in succession by Macdonaid Baldwin, Chamberlain, and Churchill. These gentlemen continued to cut working class living standards, and did nothing to shorteri the dole queues.
Organising on these issues, as well as taking up cultural questions, thrived at Cambridge University in the '30s. Between 1932 anc membership on the campus rose from a dozen to over a hundred, and continued to grow after tha: and to include Anthony Blunt.
During 1936, with the battle of Cable Street against the Black Shirts and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, anti-fascist committees dotted the country.
For Blunt, Philby, Burgess, Maclean and many others, the issue could not be more clear cut. Mussolini and Hitler were arming Franco against the Republican government in Spain. The Soviet Union was aiding the Republicans, • wulc National government blocked was pe constitu fascism' Tho: period Trotsky Internat the communst warts ASSCOSIT Whi mid-'34, WOTKer imperia Stalin's disarme the rise alliance Stalin's trapped aulante The notion ( logically the Hi in Britain 1939-41.