only deprived of the right to strike, but the slightest movement of protest was ruthlessly suppressed. In this way the dominion of capitalism led to civil war between the classes.
The resolution of the Third International concerning the White Terror gives a striking picture of the persecution of the workers during the war. It runs as follows: At the very outset of the war, the ruling classes — who on the battlefields have slaughtered more than ten million men and have crippled and mutilated a vast number in addition instituted in internal affairs a regime of bloody dictatorship (as bourgeois dictatorship). In Russia, the tsarist government shot and hanged the workers, organised anti-Jewish pogroms, and stifled every protest. The Austrian government savagely suppressed the risings of the peasants and the workers in Ukraine and Bohemia. The British bourgeoisie butchered some of the finest representatives of the Irish people. The German imperialists breathed threatenings and slaughter, and the insurgent bluejackets were the first victims of their brutal wrath.