The workers know that behind the threat of war there stands the capitalist state that wants to burden the people with new taxes, there stands the war industry that wants to increase its profits. We still remember the scandal that broke out a few years ago in France when the French capitalists deceived the German minister of war into placing with them a new order for military weapons. They had spread the rumour that the French Ministry of War had ordered new armaments. And the German minister of war, who did not wish to be outdone by the French, immediately placed a similar order with the French capitalists. May Day is the preparation for social revolution, a trial mobilisation of the forces of the working class.
Social revolution is inevitable.
Nothing of the kind can happen. As little as ten years ago we could scarcely have imagined the events of recent years. It all began with the Russian revolution of 1905. Unfortunately, reaction in Russia was too strong, and the revolution was suppressed. But then the red spectre moved to Sweden, and there was a general strike which, despite all the catastrophes involved, despite the poverty, signified moral victory for the Swedish proletariat.