Workers! The Capitalist system - production for profit instead of for use - is the cause of war! In the struggle for markets in which to realise their profits, the Capitalists of the world clash, and then expect their "hands" to become "cannon-fodder"!
ALL, of the Capitalists are aggressors from the workers' point of view. They rob you until you are industrial "scrap", and will sacrifice you "to the last man" to defend their imperial interest!
The British ruling class, who dictate by fascist methods to the colonial workers and peasants, have got themselves in a fix. Their infamous Versailles Treaty has rebounded like a boomerang - as Socialists and Pacifists foretold at the time - and now they expect the British workers to take the rap. Even so, they have not got the decency to abolish the means test and other oppressive measures that make life for the unemployed hell'. Millions for war and death, but everything for life is grudged or withheld'.
Workers! Capitalism is a system of industrial compulsion - the workers are forced to part with the right to proper food, clothing and shelter. Their wages buy a mere subsistence. Now they want to conscript us completely, industrially and militarily. They may even feed us a little better, but it is only for the "kill".
Treat them with the contempt they deserve. Let them defend their profits, their treaties with their own blood, not yours'.
They were indifferent when Abyssinian natives were being massacred. China and Austria were disowned. Czecho-Slovakia was betrayed. The Spanish Republic, with its glorious working class militants, was refused all rights of defence - even of anti-aircraft guns. And now, these allies defeated, they introduce conscription to fill the gaps - and to menace the workers industrially'.
WORKERS! THE IRISH REPUBLICANS AND SOCIALISTS PREVENTED CONSCRIPTION IN IRELAND during the last war BY A ONE-DAY GENERAL STRIKE! Why not follow their example? Demand that your spokesmen call a general strike!
Demand that the British ruling class, who have helped to cause the present crisis as much as the others, abdicate to the workers. We can solve the mess they cannot clear up'. The Italian and German workers are restless. Don't drive them into the arms of their rulers by supporting British Imperialism. Help them to rebel'.
DOWN WITH WORLD CAPITALISM, THE CAUSE OF WAR'.
DOWN WITH WAGE SLAVERY AND MILITARISM'.
WORKERS, UNITE AND FACE THE COMMON ENEMY
THOUGH WE MARCH IN DIFFERENT BATTALIONS, LET US STRIKE TOGETHER'.
CLASS BEFORE PARTY
HAIL THE DEMOCRACY OF THE WORKERS - THE WORKERS' ALL-IN COUNCILS OF ACTION'.
HAIL ANARCHISM - FREE SOCIALISM - THE ONLY HOPE OF THE WORLD'.
(May 1939)
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