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Political alliance of liberals, socialists,
communists, and other centre and left-wing
parties against fascism. This policy was
proposed by the Communist International 1935,
and was adopted in France and Spain, where
popular-front governments were elected 1936;
that in France was overthrown 1938, and in
Spain 1939. In Britain a popular-front policy
was advocated by Stafford Cripps and others,
but rejected by the Labour Party. The
resistance movements in the occupied
countries during World War II represented a
revival of the popular-front idea, and in
postwar politics the term tends to recur
whenever a strong right-wing party can be
counterbalanced only by an alliance of those
on the left.