War in Europe

Hellraisers Journal: War, Patriotism, and Wage Reductions to Beat the “Barbarous” German Workers

Submitted by JayRaye on Sat, 05/21/2016 - 1:09pm
The working class has no country.
The employing class has stolen them all.
-Robert Minor
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Sunday May 21, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: War and Wages by Robert Minor

From this month's Review, some thoughts on War, Patriotism, and International Solidarity:

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Hellraisers Journal: May Day in New York City! Unionists & Socialist Turn Out by Tens of Thousands!

Submitted by JayRaye on Mon, 05/02/2016 - 12:57pm

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday May 2, 1916
From The New York Times: Thousands March Singing Marseillaise

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Hellraisers Journal: Impressions of War from Sculptor, Nellie V Walker, and Poet, Ralph Chaplin

Submitted by JayRaye on Sat, 02/27/2016 - 12:30pm
A feast of mothers' pain is here laid low
For swarming insects hovering on high.
Grey rats, red muzzled through the trenches go
Where your death-tortured features face the sky.
-Ralph Chaplin

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Sunday February 27, 1916
The Great War in Europe and the Mass Slaughter of Working Class Sons Considered

United Mine Workers Journal, Cover of February 3, 1916:

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Hellraisers Journal: "This is not a war of Freedom." It is a war for "rulership of the earth.."

Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 02/14/2016 - 12:54pm

The armies and navies which our strutting militarists plan to create here
are not intended for your defense and mine.
Their purpose..is to protect their commerce abroad and rob the workers here
of the last remaining vestiges of their rights under
the constitution and the laws.
-Frank Bohn

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Monday February 14, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: Frank Bohn on Preparedness

In the February edition of the Review, Comrade Bohn offered some thoughts on the issue of preparedness:

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PREPAREDNESS

A Speech Delivered at Carnegie Hall, New York, Jan. 5th, 1916
By FRANK BOHN
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