The WSWS is today republishing an excerpt from the 1986 statement How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism to mark the 40th anniversary of the Malvinas/Falklands War.
The slogan "the main enemy is in the home camp" dates from a leaflet written by the German revolutionary Karl Liebknecht in May 1915, the focus of which was Italy’s entry into the war on the side of the Allies. It is rightly famous. But it is being abused in relation to the war in Ukraine. Before the war Italy had been allied with Germany in the Triple Alliance. But then, in 2015, it had joined the war on the side of the Allies. The German ruling classes denounced Italy’s "treachery" in an attempt to whip up renewed pro-war fervour.
The slogan "the main enemy is in the home camp" dates from a leaflet written by the German revolutionary Karl Liebknecht in May 1915, the focus of which was Italy’s entry into the war on the side of the Allies. It is rightly famous. But it is being abused in relation to the war in Ukraine. Before the war Italy had been allied with Germany in the Triple Alliance. But then, in 2015, it had joined the war on the side of the Allies. The German ruling classes denounced Italy’s "treachery" in an attempt to whip up renewed pro-war fervour.
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