popular front

noun

a coalition, usually temporary, of leftist and sometimes centrist political parties, formed against a common opponent, as fascism, and promoting social reform.

any similar political coalition formed to achieve short-term goals.

Also called people's front.

Origin:
1935–40; compare Spanish frente popular, French front populaire

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popular front

—n
	(often capital) any of the left-wing groups or parties that were organized from 1935 onwards to oppose the spread of fascism

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"Still, I'm much happier here, really in it than I've been for an age. People don't hate much at the front; there's no one to hate, except the poor devils across the way, whom they [the French soldiers] know to be as miserable as themselves. They don't talk hypocritical bosh about the beauty & manliness of war: they feel in their souls that if they weren't cowards they would have ended the thing long ago—by going home, where they want to be. And lastly and best, they don't jabber about atrocities—of course, everyone commits them—though about one story in a million that reaches our blessed Benighted States is true."

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