Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside