International Socialism and the WarP. S. King and son, Limited, 1915 - 167 pages |
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affiliated aggression aggressor Alliance ally armaments army attitude August 4th Austria barbarism Belgian Socialists Belgium Britain British Socialist Party capitalist civilisation comrades crisis Czar Czarism Daily Citizen declared defence demand democracy democratic despotism diplomacy diplomatic duty Entente Europe European fact favour Federation fighting foreign France freedom French Socialists German Social-Democrats German Socialists Germany's honour hostile Independent Labour Party influence interests International Socialist Bureau invasion of Belgium issued Italian Socialist Italian Socialist Party Italy Jaurès July Kaiserism Keir Hardie Labour Leader Liberal liberty Liebknecht Manchester Guardian Manifesto Marcel Sembat meetings ment militarism Ministers mobilisation neutral countries October opinion opposed Parliament Parliamentary Group peace political present Press proletariat Reichstag Roman Socialists Russia Russian Socialists secret Servia Sir Edward Grey Social-Democratic Party Socialism Socialist body Socialist movement struggle suppressed tion to-day Trade Union Trade Unionists treaties Vandervelde victory Vorwärts vote workers working-class
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Page 114 - I am not able to subscribe to the doctrine of those who have held in this House what plainly amounts to an assertion, that the simple fact of the existence of a guarantee is binding on every party to it, irrespectively altogether of the particular position in which it may find itself at the time when the occasion for acting on the guarantee arises.
Page 5 - Bureau as a means of coordinating their action, to use every effort to prevent war By all the means which seem to them most appropriate, having regard to the sharpness of the class war and to the general political situation; Should war none the less break out, their duty is to intervene to bring it promptly to an end, and with all their energies to use the political and economic crisis created by the war to rouse the populace from its slumbers, and to hasten the fall of capitalist domination.
Page 5 - If war threatens to break out it is the duty of the working class in the countries concerned and of their Parliamentary representatives, with the help of the International Socialist Bureau as a means of co-ordinating their action, to use every effort to prevent war by all the means which seem to them most appropriate, having regard to the sharpness of the class war and to the general political situation.
Page 92 - Compel those of the governing class and their Press who are eager to commit you to co-operate with Russian despotism to keep silence and respect the decision of the overwhelming majority of the people, who will have neither part nor lot in such infamy.
Page 107 - Belgium to get at Germany, who believes we should have begun hostilities against France ? Behind the back of Parliament and people, the British Foreign Office gave secret understandings to France, denying their existence when challenged. That is why this country is now face to face with the red ruin and impoverishment of war. Treaties and agreements have dragged Republican France at the heels of despotic Russia, Britain at the heels of France.
Page 107 - Out of the darkness and the depth we hail our workingclass comrades of every land. Across the roar of guns, we send sympathy and greeting to the German Socialists. They have laboured unceasingly to promote good relations with Britain, as we with Germany. They are no enemies of ours but faithful friends.
Page 94 - So far as we are concerned whatever may happen, whatever may be said about us, whatever attacks may be made upon us, we will take the action that we will take, of saying that this country ought to have remained neutral, because in the deepest parts of our hearts, we believe that that was right and that that alone was consistent with the honour of the country and the traditions of the party that are now in office.