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November 1918 — one war ending, another continues
JOHN ELLISON gives a history of how the left press reported the end of WW1 and the start of hostilities towards socialist Russia
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
NEWSPAPER readers in Britain looking back from November 1918 would have appreciated that the balance of military forces on the Western Front, after four years of relative stability, had changed crucially in the Allies’ favour since August, causing the front to move remorselessly eastwards towards Germany’s frontiers.
But readers remained insulated from the human reality of the war’s daily horrors by authoritarian censorship and by unconditional support for the war given by war correspondents and mainstream editors, who were generally even reluctant to draw attention to the decisive role since the summer of the fresh million-plus US army.
In 1936, the then editor of this paper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, Rajani Palme Dutt summed up the war in his classic World Politics. “The war of 1914 was inevitable in the sense that imperialism could find no other solution for its conflicts … The outbreak of the war … revealed that the world forces unloosed by imperialism had fully outstripped the control of the statesmen of imperialism … The war, once begun, drove forward with its own murderous logic … The Gordian knot … was finally cut by the sword of the revolution … The Russian Revolution ended the war in the East. The German Revolution ended the war in the West.”
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