One of George Orwell’s purposes in writing Homage To Catalonia was to give an account of events by one who was there. As Orwell was in Barcelona during the ‘May Days’ of 1937 which were headlined as a ‘Trotskyist Rising’ using ‘Hidden Arms’ by the British Communist press his rebuttal is particularly valuable. Orwell … Continue reading Pitcairn, Campbell and Orwell