"tell me why I should revere a coward?"
I will, if you tell me why I should take anybody who calls himself Paco O'Hitler anything other than a sicko!
I suggest you read the relevant threads - god knows there are enough of them - or even try the book Mathew Edwards suggested before you start handing out your white feathers.
MacColl was many things, but he certainly wasn't a coward, any more than the many millions of others who shared his opinions about the ambiguity of W.W.2.
My father was fighting fascism three years before the war broke out - in Spain. For his pains (he was wounded and was taken prisoner of war) he was rewarded with a police record as a 'premature anti-fascist' and blacklisted from his work (as well as being excommunicated from his religion by the 'Christian' church) - that's how 'anti-fascist' the British establishment and our spiritual leaders were at the time.
I suggest if you want to be taken seriously, you adopt a more acceptible name than 'Paco O'Hitler' which, personally I find extremely offensive - funny - I laughed all the way to the gas chamber!
Jim Carroll