ABSTRACT
Dora Montefiore's pamphlet on militarism and anti-militarism shows how the roots of these differences were already clearly exposed before the war. Montefiore's resolute anti-militarism would become the British Socialist Party's predominant position once Hyndman and his supporters were defeated. The workers, on the contrary, oppose militarism, and every form of compulsory service and conscription from the industrial and international standpoint from which it affects the workers all over the world; and the workers, as a class, suffering, as they do at present under the system of wage-slavery, declare that they refuse any longer to bear children, or to fight and die in the interests of the exploiting class. The workers now recognise that it is this exploiting class—those who, owning the land, machinery and tools of production, and who only allow the workers access to these means of life in return for their underpaid labour—who decide when and where wars shall be made.
