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In this section we are presenting information about the history of working class resistance to various wars.
For reasons of convenience we will group it according to conventional historical definitions of what constitutes a war. Of course, this has its problems. Capitalism is a war machine. Its very existence is competition and there is a continuous possibility that this competition will express itself in a military form. It's not really possible to say where one "official" war ends and another begins. For example, what are the dates of the so-called Second World War? Even the official answer depends which country you are in. Perhaps the "Spanish Civil War" should be considered as part of the "Second World War" - even some bourgeois historians describe it as a "dress rehearsal". Given the continued use of anti-fascist ideology by almost all fractions of the ruling class, we could argue that the Second World War never ended - the ruling class are still slaughtering the working class in the name of anti-fascism! But we will try to stick to the conventional historical categories... or sometimes invent some of own. For example, we are not going to bother working out exactly how many wars took place on the territory of what was once the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia in the years 1991-2001 or exactly where and when each one took place. Suffice it to say that there were a lot of different capitalist fractions involved who used a lot of different ideologies to justify what they were doing (massacring proletarians!). If you are an apologist for the capitalist system who believes in "just" wars this must be very confusing - who do you (critically) support? For us there is no such confusion. We are against the patriotic butchers on all sides and with the strikers, draft dodgers, deserters, and general unpatriotic malcontents on all sides.