"The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism."
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Leon Trotsky, "Resolution on the Antiwar Congress of the London Bureau" (July 1936).
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