[Ted Grant] Workers Must Be Armed Against Capitalism Ted Grant Fascism World War II Imperialism & War World War II Imperialism & War Fascism A volunteer of the French Resistance interior force (FFI) at Châteaudun in 1944 / Image: Wikimedia commons Share TweetThe French ruling class had miserably succumbed to Nazi domination in 1940. Now Britain faced the threat of invasion. In France the bourgeoisie refused to arm the people for fear that these arms would eventually be turned against them. The revolutionary socialists in Britain posed the demand of expropriating the capitalists and arming the workers to stop any Nazi invasion.Read Ted Grant's July 1940 article on the Ted Grant Archive. (originally published in Youth For Socialism, Vol. 2 No. 10, July 1940)
