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Industrial Workers of the World poster against WWI

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.

How the top brass undermined WWI soldiers' attempts to 'live and let live'

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How socialists of Lenin’s time responded to colonialism

Manabendra Nath Roy

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James Connolly: National liberation and socialism

Tribute to James Connolly by

When Karl Liebknecht said ‘no’ to World War I

Karl Liebknecht.

Capitalism's world war and the battle against it

Trench warfare between French and German troops during the First World War

Responding to capitalist global disaster: World War I and today

The following talk was delivered to the US International Socialist Organization's Socialism 2014 conference in Chicago, June 28, 2014.

Class conflict in the shadow of Gallipoli: What government propaganda won’t tell you

ANZACs: 'Lions led by donkeys'

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Australia & New Zealand: The imperialist reality behind ANZAC myth (updated 2015)

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The soldiers' Christmas truce -- A bas la guerre! Nie wieder Kreig! Das walte Gott! Peace on Earth!

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