George Orwell Russian Trotskyist trials and from the start every kind of lie, including flagrant absurdities, has been circulated in the Communist press." Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War gave rise to "Homage to Catalonia" (1938). Orwell returned to England in June 1937, and stayed at the O'Shaughnessy home at Greenwich. He found his views on the Spanish Civil War out of favour. Kingsley Martin rejected two of his works and Gollancz was equally cautious. At the same time, the communist "Daily Worker" was running an attack on "The Road to Wigan Pier", taking out of context Orwell writing that "the
Spilling the Spanish Beans story of what had happened in Barcelona. From Barcelona Orwell was sent to Alcubierre on the Aragon Front. In the first part of the article Orwell argues that in the case of the Spanish Civil War, even more than pro-fascist newspapers like the "Daily Mail", left-wing papers such as the "News Chronicle" and "Daily Worker" had "prevented the British public from grasping the real nature of the struggle." Orwell describes the imprisoning of those whose opinions were too much to the left and that the people responsible for putting them there were the Communists: "The real struggle is between revolution