ABSTRACT
Although Swingler disagrees with the Comintern’s description of the war as ‘imperialist’, he supports the new line in public. He writes anti-war songs with Alan Bush and Blitz journalism for Daily Worker. He helps to found the Realist Writers Group and is elected to the People’s Convention Cultural Committee. MI5 conduct surveillance on Swingler’s Great Newport Street office and on their Canonbury Square flat. MI5 suspects Geraldine of working as a Soviet courier. The Daily Worker banned. Swingler writes We’re in the Army Now , launches the magazine Our Time and purchases Seven for Fore Pubs. With Christian Darnton he writes The Ballad of Liberty.
