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| Title | Revolutionary essays |
| Series Title | International socialist library, 15 |
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| Publisher | British Socialist Party |
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| Date | 1920 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 46 pages; 18 cm. |
| Original Item Location | HX256.K84 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304436~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
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| Transcript | The official Social-Democratic Party, which, it must be recognised, is at present beginning to drift to the Left, is still not the interpreter of the feeling of the Austrian working class. / From little notes which have escaped the Censor's eye we can ascertain that every market is a real battlefield—a battlefield in which men and women fight the police and the provisioning authorities. These conflicts are the accustomed daily event in every town. War industry is unstable, thanks to the "idleness" of the workers. Attempts are made—as, for example, on the State railways—to anticipate this form of silent sabotage where raw materials are concerned. But nothing can be of any avail. In Trieste and in Cracow the workers have already taken up arms. The weakness of the central government in Austria is nerely a guarantee that the mass movement of the workers will one day pass, by means of an armed rising, into a notorious revolution. There is now no lack of activity. The Model Product of Imperialism. ("Pravda," May 24th, 1918.) \ A close alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary has been concluded, and is making its appearance as a new factor in the arena of the world-war. By this new treat, Austria-Hungary is annexed to Germany in the fullest sense of the word. If any of the nations that constitute the Dual Monarchy has recourse to a revolt or a rising, before it there will instantly rise the perspective of military occupation. The fundamental characteristic of the treaty, however, is not its reduction of Austria- Hungary to the position of a colony, not the economic exploitation of the country, but the guaranteeing to Germany of cannon-fodder in order that she may realise her imperialists aims. Annexation is veiled in the form of a treaty : but this circumstance means nothing. The organs of the German military party do not attempt to conceal that that fact implies merely a special act of grace on the part of victorious German imperialism. The "Kreuz-Zeitung" points out that (26) ■ ■HHM |