On Wed, 10 May 2017 00:29:39 -0700 (PDT), saracene
Post by saracenePost by MMThen you'll be like all those millions of Germans in 1945 who swore
blind they ~never~ supported the Nazis. The very idea!
That is the kind of defeat you hope to inflict on this country. Are you Jewish?
http://www.abelard.org/socialism/socialism_and_peace.php
stafford cripps, another labour hero
I do not believe it would be a bad thing for the British working
class if Germany defeated us. 1936
Money cannot make armaments. Armaments can only be made by the
skill of the British working class, and it is the British working
class who would be called upon to use them. To-day you have the most
glorious opportunity that the workers have ever had if you will only
use the necessity of capitalism in order to get power yourselves. The
capitalists are in your hands. Refuse to make munitions, refuse to
make armaments, and they are helpless. They would have to hand the
control of the country over to you. 1937
The workers must now make it clear beyond all doubt that they
will not support the Government or its armaments in its mad policy
which it is now pursuing. Mid-1938
A common theme of the Left in the pursuit of disarmament was the
suggestion that unions go on strike to sabotage arms production!.
from attlee down the left wanted to be nice to mister hitler
During the passage through parliament of the Compulsory Military
Training Act (conscription), early May 1939
From the speeches of Socialist MPs:
David Kirkwood
I will do all I can to get not only the engineers of the Clyde,
but engineers throughout Britain, to down tools against conscription.
Aneurin Bevan
What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except
merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a
redistribution of the international swag?
Alexander Sloan
I oppose conscription because it is a capitalist innovation to
secure soldiers to protect private property.
Neil Maclean
The Conscription Bill is a Bill which I for one shall advise
every young man of nineteen or twenty to refuse to accept. I shall
advise mothers not to allow their boys to go and I shall advise the
boys not to be conscripted.