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  • 1. What movement did the Anarchist Federation of Britain participate in during World War II?
A) The pro-war effort
B) The nationalist movement
C) The conservative movement
D) The anti-war movement
  • 2. Which publication served as the main mouthpiece of the AFB during World War II?
A) Class Conflict Daily
B) War Commentary
C) The Anarchist Review
D) The Syndicalist Worker
  • 3. Who established the Glasgow Anarchist-Communist Federation in 1937?
A) The Labour Party
B) Peter Marshall
C) Albert Meltzer
D) Frank Leech
  • 4. Where was Frank Leech imprisoned for refusing fire lookout schemes?
A) London Central Prison
B) Tyneside Correctional
C) HM Prison Barlinnie
D) Glasgow City Gaol
  • 5. Which groups did the AFB collaborate with in the No-Conscription League?
A) CPGB and NUSM
B) Labour Party and TUC
C) APCF and USM
D) IS and IMG
  • 6. What happened to the Glaswegian members charged with incitement in 1940?
A) They were executed
B) They were deported
C) They were imprisoned for ten years
D) They were acquitted
  • 7. The AFB supported a wildcat strike by which group of workers in Glasgow?
A) Coal miners
B) Bus workers
C) Dock workers
D) Railway workers
  • 8. What was the result of the 1943 coal miners' strike in Lanarkshire?
A) Release of imprisoned miners
B) Total revolution
C) Government collapse
D) Union recognition
  • 9. Why did the women's strike at a Glaswegian engineering factory end in 1944?
A) The owners went bankrupt
B) Lack of support from male workers
C) They achieved all their demands
D) The police disbanded the factory
  • 10. How did the AFB describe the strike committees formed by women factory workers?
A) Egoist anarchism
B) State-sponsored activism
C) Unconscious anarcho-syndicalism
D) Trade union reformism
  • 11. What organization did the remnants of the AFB eventually become?
A) United Socialist Movement
B) Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation
C) Syndicalist Workers Federation
D) Organisation of Revolutionary Anarchists
  • 12. Who attributed the split in the AFB to the rise of anarcho-syndicalists?
A) The CPGB
B) Frank Leech
C) Peter Marshall
D) Albert Meltzer
  • 13. Who insisted that the AFB's split was caused by personal conflict?
A) Frank Leech
B) The Labour Party
C) Albert Meltzer
D) Peter Marshall
  • 14. What ideology did the London-based group of the AFB gravitate towards after the split?
A) Anarcho-syndicalism
B) Platformism
C) Marxian Socialism
D) Egoist anarchism
  • 15. Which organization emerged in reaction to the AFB's lack of formal organization?
A) Syndicalist Workers Federation
B) Organisation of Revolutionary Anarchists
C) Anti-Labour Laws Victims Defence Committee
D) Glasgow Anarchist-Communist Federation
  • 16. What approach did the 1963 reestablished AFB attempt to follow?
A) Anarchist synthesis
B) Egoist anarchism
C) Platformism
D) Reformist trade unionism
  • 17. To which groups did many members defect after the AFB's decline?
A) Conservative parties
B) The Labour Party
C) Trotskyist parties
D) Libertarian socialist groups
  • 18. What did the AFB call the war between warring states?
A) A class war against fascism
B) A crusade for freedom
C) One between rival Imperialisms
D) An inevitable revolutionary conflict
  • 19. What was the final evolution of the Syndicalist Workers Federation?
A) International Socialists
B) Solidarity Federation
C) Workers' International League
D) Organisation of Revolutionary Anarchists
  • 20. What did the AFB believe would happen as warring states collapsed?
A) Global peace
B) The return of monarchies
C) Total economic isolation
D) A revolutionary wave
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