Anti-fascism and Spanish Civil War
In 1934, MacLeod attended the founding conference of the Canadian League Against War and Fascism in Toronto, and was elected its chairman. The League was a popular front group founded by the Communist Party which in its last years was known as the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy. The league and another organization Macleod helped found, the Canadian Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, recruited members for the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, the Canadian contingent of the International Brigade that fought to defend the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, MacLeod led the Canadian delegation at the Collective Security Congress in Brussels.
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