World War I

Should we expect a new world war? Two prison letters from Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Kagarlitsky reflects on the possibilities of a new world war by drawing on historical analogies, analysing China’s place in the global system, and uncovering the deeper structural crises that underpin today’s international conflicts.

Lenin on Serbia’s role in World War I: A useful analogy for the current Ukraine war?
Michael Pröbsting looks at Lenin’s actual position on the defence of Serbia in World War I and why it is wrong to apply it to the Ukraine War today.
Why did New Zealand suffer the worst casualty rate in World War I?

1916: Use workers’ power to end the war

Karl Liebknecht 1916: ‘Down with the war; down with the government!’

The Kiental Manifesto: Socialists against war, 1916

Saudi Arabia’s lesser known exports after oil: Wahhabism and pro-imperialism

US President Barack Obama fetes the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
By Rupen Savoulian
1915: When socialist women united against WWI

Clara Zetkin.

Socialists and World War I: Turn the imperialist war into a civil war
It has been a hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War.