Socialists appreciate that the war over Iraq has drawn many workers into a political arena hitherto seen as boring and as impossible to influence from the outside. Workers once apolitical have been stirred into action by the lies, the tricks to curtail the democratic process, and the acts of violence, murder and destruction from their leaders. Where before, whether at breakfast, in the workplace, in a caf at lunchtime or over dinner in the pub in an evening, we discussed our work, sport, TV, pop music, sex and the weather or our personal pursuits, over and above our everyday...
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In view of the explanations and reasons offered by the spokesmen of the Capitalist class, as to the cause of the war in which the United States is now engaged, and in view of the many statements of pseudo-Socialists and others, misrepresenting the Socialist position, thus spreading confusion in the minds of the workers in general and particularly in the minds of those Workers who are interested in Socialism we deem it necessary, at this time, to restate the correct working class position. Cause of the War The underlying cause of the present war, involving the principal capitalist nations...
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