Women workers with artillery shell-filling factory, Chilwell, England, 1914

Women in World War One

Jane James and Jim Horton are members of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). World War One resulted in the horrific slaughter of millions of workers who were initially encouraged and then conscripted into the bloody horrors of trench warfare. Women too were cajoled to do their bit for ’the war to end […]

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World War One: 100 years since the great slaughter

Tony Saunois is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Ten million killed and more than ten million seriously injured The first world war began 100 years ago, unleashing slaughter on an unprecedented scale. This anniversary has featured prominently in the capitalist media. Most fail, however, to explain why millions of working-class people […]

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