The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 5 No. 21 - 17 August 1918)

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Including: awful conditions in Belfast prison, Sylvia Pankhurst on the Brest Litovsk treaty, women munition workers, socialist education: The New School continued from previous issue, etc.

Submitted by Fozzie on October 30, 2024

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westartfromhere

27 sec ago

Submitted by westartfromhere on October 31, 2024

Ms Pankhurst's words on the betrayal of revolution by the Social Democrats of Russia are so blurred as to be unreadable.

Fozzie

2 hours 29 min ago

Submitted by Fozzie on October 31, 2024

The PDF is readable I think? For some reason the screenshots I take of the first pages are a bit blurry. Not sure what to do about that.

Fozzie

4 hours 54 min ago

Submitted by Fozzie on October 31, 2024

Maybe that's better....

westartfromhere

3 hours 55 min ago

Submitted by westartfromhere on October 31, 2024

Opened it in a different Reader and it is clear now.

The words that resonate most today are those of Lloyd George:

The people who made the war for the purpose for which they made it are still there prosecuting the same sinister purpose.

No words to be read here from Comrade Pankhurst on the role of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty in betraying proletarian revolution worldwide.

Maybe this AI thing is useful after all:

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is often seen as a betrayal of the proletarian revolution worldwide because it forced the fledgling Soviet government to cede vast territories to Germany, essentially abandoning revolutionary movements in those regions and undermining the idea of international solidarity among working classes, ultimately fuelling scepticism about the Bolsheviks' commitment to global revolution.

The Thumbnail looks better, Fozzie.

Fozzie

2 min 4 sec ago

Submitted by Fozzie on October 31, 2024

OK good to know, thanks. It’s unnerving posting some of these with all the optimism about Russia…