Socialist Appeal - International Marxist Tendency
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Last week, on 6th and 9th August respectively, marked the 72nd anniversary of the dropping of two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Stephen Agnew looks at the real history and factors behind the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War Two.
In the final part in his series on World War One, Alan Woods looks at how the war was brought to an end by revolutionary upheavals across Europe, beginning with Russia in 1917 - a fact that has been buried under a mountain of myths, pacifist sentimentality, and lying patriotic propaganda.
The frontiers of the Arab world today are the product of a secret plan drawn in pencil on a map of the Levant in May 1916 in a deal struck between British and French imperialism at the height of the First World War. Worked out one hundred years ago, the Sykes-Picot agreement is now synonymous with imperial deceit, cynicism and treachery.
We continue here the latest part in Alan Woods' series on World War One, in which Alan discusses the turning point in the war. Dialectics explains how, sooner or later, things can change into their opposite. The First World War is a very good example of this. In the first period of the war reaction was firmly in the saddle. But by 1917, the situation had been transformed.
We resume publication of Alan Woods' series looking at the horrors of the First World War - "The Great Slaughter". In this part, Alan examines Under Fire: The Story of a Squad, a novel by Henri Barbusse written in 1916 about the brutal reality of the war for those soldiers who fought on the front lines.