The Second International and World War One

The socialist parties of europe almost uniformly supported their national war efforts. Socialist legislators voted in favor of war bonds to fund the war. Union leaders and socialist parties vowed not to call strikes for the duration of the war. They declared as loudly and clearly as they could that they were patriotic supporters, committed to national victory. But for a variety of reasons, some good and some bad, they all wound up lashing themselves to their respective national projects.