"They claimed us to be Trotskyists, fascists, traitors, murderers, treachers, spies, etc. I admit that this felt bitter, especially when you thought of some of the people who were responsible for it. It's not fun to watch a fifteen-year-old Spanish boy be taken on a stretcher from the line, his pain-staring, staring at his head intoxicated, and the well-known people in London and Paris writing pamphlets to show that this boy is a disguised fascist. *One of the most horrific features of wars is that war propaganda
#PhenomnPropagandaDisinformation, all the screaming and lies and anger, is invariably set in motion by people who are not themselves on fire.* PSUC militia soldiers I knew on the front, or international brigade communists I met pretty much..."