Opposition to World War I | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-16

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00:01:28 1 Women
00:02:40 2 Pacifists
00:05:08 3 Great Britain
00:07:25 4 In the British Empire
00:07:34 4.1 Australia
00:08:54 4.2 Canada
00:09:33 4.3 Ireland
00:10:13 4.4 New Zealand
00:10:42 5 In other Allied countries
00:13:06 6 In the United States
00:13:16 6.1 Henry Ford
00:14:17 6.2 Religious groups
00:15:24 6.3 Far-left
00:19:20 7 In the African colonies
00:19:49 8 See also



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Opposition to World War I included  socialist, anarchist, syndicalist, and Marxist groups on the left, as well as  Christian pacifists, Canadian and Irish nationalists, women's groups, intellectuals, and rural folk. Women across the spectrum were much less supportive than men.
The socialist movements had declared before the war their opposition to a war which they said could only mean workers killing each other in the interests of their bosses. But once the war was declared, most socialist and trade union bodies decided to back the government of their country and support the war. For example, on 25 July 1914, the executive of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) issued an appeal to its membership to demonstrate against the coming war, only to vote on 4 August for the war credits the German government wanted. Likewise the French Socialist Party and its union, the CGT, especially after the assassination of the pacificist Jean Jaurès, organised mass rallies and protests until the outbreak of war, but once the war began they argued that in wartime socialists should support their nations against the aggression of other nations and also voted for war credits.Groups opposed to the war included the Russian Bolsheviks, the Socialist Party of America, the Italian Socialist Party, and the socialist faction led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in Germany (later to become the Communist Party of Germany). In Sweden, the socialist youth leader Zeth Höglund was jailed for his anti-war propaganda, even though Sweden did not participate in the war.