"The hour is rapidly arriving when every man and woman of our class will have to make a great decision. We shall have to choose whether capitalism with all its attendant miseries and horrors is to remain enthroned here in Britain, or whether we intend to be free indeed. We shall have to choose whether we really believe in the application of the right of self-determination for all nations, or whether, for generations yet to come, we prefer to remain the tools of Imperialism, and the slaves of profit."
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Fourteen Points, Halifax Division of the Socialist Labour Party, (1918)
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Arthur MacManus
1889 – 1927
Arthur MacManus (1889–1927) was a Scottish trade unionist and communist politician.
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