World War II

[The Grey Blur]

What were the lines of the various socialist currents regarding the second world war?

Were there cases of workers militias joining the armed forces of the capitalist state so as to end Fascism?

Thanks

[chimx]

Well what do you mean? Forced military conscription was quite common during that area in capitalist states. As far as conquered lands go, France's communist party were rather rabid anti-fascists that made up the bulk of the resistance--thus their initial popularity during the post-war years.

[Leo]

What were the lines of the various socialist currents regarding the second world war?

Stalinists supported the war and the USSR (after USSR entered the war), internationalist opposed the war and said that both sides were bourgeois and none should be supported (similar to the WWI) and Trotskyists ended up supporting both sides after Trotsky died. Mostly the ones in England and US ended up supporting England and US, some of the ones in places under Nazi occupation ended up supporting the Nazis.

[Cryotank Screams]

If you are asking were there working class organizations and revolutionary people working against fascism in WII, and I am not just wasting my time, lol, then here is a links to accounts of some Anarchist resistance, and Anarchist groups working against mussolini and the fascists, hitler and the nazis, hirohito and the imperialists, and franco and the falange.

Spanish Anarchists;
http://libcom.org/tags/spanish-resistance?page=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archi...shcivilwar.html (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/spancivwar/Spanishcivilwar.html)

Italian Anarchists;
http://libcom.org/history/bibbi-gino-1899-1999
http://libcom.org/history/anarchist-partis...lian-resistance (http://libcom.org/history/anarchist-partisans-in-italian-resistance)

Japanese Anarchists;
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersection...7/raddeker.html (http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue7/raddeker.html)
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/japan/sp...3/japchap2.html (http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/japan/sp001883/japchap2.html)
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/japan/sp...3/japchap3.html (http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/japan/sp001883/japchap3.html)

German Anarchists;
http://libcom.org/history/1918-1937-anarch...in-nazi-germany (http://libcom.org/history/1918-1937-anarchist-activity-in-nazi-germany)
http://www.infoshop.org/wiki/index.php/The...in_Nazi_Germany (http://www.infoshop.org/wiki/index.php/The_FAUD_in_Nazi_Germany)
http://www.infoshop.org/wiki/index.php/Freie_Arbeiter_Union

[Louis Pio]

Well in Britian there was the RCP (revolutionary communist party) who even conducted revolutionary work in the army. Most notably the british eight army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary...%281944-1949%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party_%281944-1949%29).
It's mentioned in History of British Trotskyism by Ted Grant.
In Spain, Greece and yougoslavia (among others) you had various communist guerillas, shouldn't be hard to find accounts of.