Dave Simmonds: A Pacifist's Struggle with War

He has left the Party because of the murder of the Jewish Anti-Fascist League in the Soviet Union and he runs a greengrocer shop.
Dave Simmonds is early twenty years old when the play starts. He is a communist militant that wanted to join the International Brigade to help fighting in Spain. He thinks that it is unfair to fight against fascists because they are blind and they are just men, but he wants to fight because he wants his life to make sense despite he is a pacifist. After the Second World War in which he also fights against fascists, he leaves his ideals because, according to Ada says in the first scene of act two, he has seen men that did not know what the war was about and behaving like animals and that killed Dave’s illusions about

The Battle of Cable Street was a revolt in the East End of anti-fascists and fascists with the Metropolitan police of London in the middle of the conflict. In the first scene of the first act appear the following characters: Sarah, Harry, Monty, Prince and Dave and it is seen how the characters wait to participate in the revolt against the fascists. While they are waiting, they talked about the revolt and their thoughts about war and Spain. The Kahn’s kids are supposed to be at Hymie’s house. It is also seen at the beginning how Sarah already nagged Harry because he did not tell her the

In this play, the stage directions are longer at the beginning, where there is a briefly description of each character the first time one of them appears on scene and there is also a description of the living room of the Kahn’s house, where the plot of the play takes place. Every time that a new scene begins and the time in which the action takes place changes, there is a briefly explanation to clarify the changes in the of the