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6. THE ZIMMERWALD LEFT AND ITS BRITISH SUPPORTERS "The third, real internationalist trend is most nearly represented by the "Zimmerwald Left"15.....It is charact- erised by the complete break with social-chauvinism and "centrism", a relentless war against the imperialist home government and the imperialist home bourgeoisie. Its principle is "Our greatest enemy is at home". A ruthless struggle against nauseatingly sentimental social-pacifist phrases (a social-pacifist is a socialist in words, and a bourgeois pacifist in deeds; bourgeois pacifists dream of an everlasting peace without the overthrow of the yoke and domination of capital) and against all sophistry employed to demonstrate the impossibility, the inappropriateness, the untimeliness of a proletarian revolutionary struggle, of a proletarian socialist revolution in connection with the present war.....Closest to real internationalists are: in England, the paper, 'Trade Unionist'16, and some of the members of the British Socialist Party17 and of the Indep- endent Labour Party18 (for instance, Russell Williams19, who has openly called for a break with the leaders who have betrayed socialism), the Scottish elementary school teacher and Socialist, MacLean, who has been sentenced to hard labour by the bourgeois government of England for his revolutionary activity against the war; hundreds of Eng- lish Socialists who are in jail for the same offence. They, only, they, are internationalists in deed". - 10th April 1917. Collected Works, Vol. XX, Book I, pp. 147-149. THE MASSES MOVE AGAINST THE WAR "There is no doubt that the beginning of October has brought us to the greatest turning point in the history of the Russian and, to all appearances, also of the world revolution. "The world workers' revolution started with the actions of individuals who, by their unswerving courage, represen- ted everything honest that has survived the decay of off- icial "socialism", which is in reality social-chauvinism. Liebknecht in Germany, Adler20 in Austria, MacLean in England - these are the best known names of those indivi- dual heroes who took upon themselves the difficult role of forerunners of the world revolution.