As 2025 dawns, here in the United States we face the prospect of a four year (or more) reign of Christo-Fascist zealots. But the world has seen it all before.

The League of American Writers was formed by artists, authors and poets and others  who established by the First American Writers Congress in 1935.

The letter above was written by Donald Ogden Stewart, the President of the League and longtime friend and neighbor of Rockwell Kent, this large-scale, anti-fascist broadside voiced the organization’s cry against the brutality of the Spanish Civil War. In addition to Kent and Stewart, other notable signers include Elmer Adler, Marc Blitzstein, Lawrence Gelb, Prince Hubertus and Princess Helga Maria Loewenstein, Henry Seidel Canby, and author and screenwriter Lester Cohen. Although their signatures do not appear on the document, other prominent members of the League included Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Nathanael West. Hemingway, in particular, spoke out about his time covering the Spanish Civil War and the atrocities that he witnessed.

The calligraphed broadside with a statement signed by members of The League of American Writers, which features a headpiece illustration by Rockwell Kent, who was also a member of the contentious organization.