Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
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JULY 28 1914: the tensions between the imperialist forces and the emerging capitalist forces caused the outbreak of the First World War. Even though the motivation was a struggle between the ruling classes, this war generated more conflicts inside the Second International.
Indeed, the situation within the Second International was not the best for a long time, but it is undeniable that the First World War caused a crisis that dynamited the already existing tensions.
The international workers’ movement had to stand up to those sectors that decided that the working class had something at stake in that cruel imperialist war in which the only thing to be decided was the division of the world among the ruling classes.
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