Popular Front

History of the Popular Front

The following commentary about Popular Front in the Churchill Era is produced by the Churchill College (Cambridge): A term borrowed from Spanish politics to signify a broad coalition of leftist political groups, ranging from moderate liberals to extreme communists and anarchists. The term came into disrepute in Britain during the Spanish Civil War and the Conservatives therefore used it to tarnish A D Lindsay's anti-appeasement coalition in the 1938 Oxford by-election.