[1] The American League Against War and Fascism, attempted to attract as broad a following as possible and included members of the Roosevelt administration.
[4] The American League dissolved after the 1939 signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty between Josef Stalin's Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany that ended the CPUSA's anti-Hitler activity until the 1941 Nazi invasion of the USSR, discouraged its non-communist members.
[5] Its communist elements then influenced the founding of the American Peace Mobilization front to lobby against American help for the Allies, particular the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in their struggle against Hitler in the opening years of World War II.
Foster, Devere Allen, Robert, Minor, and Elizabeth Bentley (later Soviet spy, later FBI informant).
[6][7] The League produced a monthly broadsheet entitled FIGHT Against War and Fascism,[8] published in New York City under the editorship of Liston M.