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Interesting side note. After the February 1934 Crisis in France when far-right chauvinist leagues leveraged the center-left out of government through street action, the French left mobilized culturally, partly due to the efforts of Surrealists, and created antifascist leagues...
This seems somewhat superficial, because the Surrealists were an arts movement, but they also engaged in protests that could get very physical and the leagues were bigger than just intellectuals making commitments and signing letters or petitions. They generated a groundswell...
The groups they were up against were not messing around either. The far-right had been a chaotic mess of violent groups since Boulanger's suicide, including the Action Française and their fighting group Camelots du Roi, as well as the Croix-de-Feu (insignia left) and JP (right).
But the antifascist leagues held, and within a couple of years, the right-wing government was replaced by the Popular Front. France didn't turn fascist like Italy, Germany, and Austria (counting Austrofascism) partly because of this mass effort to push back against a putsch.
More contemporary examples of antifascist leagues include the union-backed Anti-Nazi League, which helped do the Rock Against Racism movement, a truly inspired effort that help change English society during the doldrums of the late-'70s.
