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Betrayal of the Left (full title: Betrayal of the Left: an Examination & Refutation of Communist Policy from October 1939 to January 1941: with Suggestions for an Alternative and an Epilogue on Political Morality) was a book of essays published in 3 March 1941 by the Left Book Club, edited and largely written by Victor Gollancz.

Other contributions included two essays by George Orwell, "Fascism and Democracy" and "Patriots and Revolutionaries"[1] that condemned the Communist Party of Great Britain for backing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 and for taking a revolutionary defeatist position in the war against Nazi Germany. Betrayal of the Left also contained an essay by John Strachey attacking totalitarianism. [2]

It was particularly critical of the CP-organised People's Convention of January 1941, the high point of the CP's revolutionary defeatism during the period of Stalin's alliance with Hitler. It marked a decisive break by the democratic left from its 1930s alliance with the CP.

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  1. ^ http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/perryMat.html Institute of Historical Research. Matt Perry. University of Sunderland
  2. ^ Michael Newman, John Strachey, Manchester University Press, 1989 ISBN 071902174X (p.83).
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