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A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault".[1][2] More generally, it is "a coalition especially of leftist political parties against a common opponent".[3][4] But other alliances have used the term (for example Popular Front of India). And not all leftist or anti-fascist coalitions use the term "popular front".
The term was first used in the mid-1930s in Europe by communists concerned over their competition in fascism in Italy and Germany, which they sought to combat by coalescing with non-communist political groupings they had previously attacked as enemies. Temporarily successful popular front governments were formed in France, Spain, and Chile in 1936.[2]
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