First World War - A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter

On the centenary of the battle of the Somme, we are publishing the list of articles written by Alan Woods to examine different aspects of the First World War.

1. Assassination in Sarajevo – The first shots of the Great Slaughter

2. On the brink of the abyss

3. The strange story of the Kaiser and the Tsar

4. Into the abyss

5. The Great Slaughter begins

6. Tsarist Russia and the War

7. Turkey Joins the War

8. Victims and aggressors

9. The USA and the War: War is good for business

10. Big bandits and small bandits

11. Wilfred Owen and the Muse of War

12. Under Fire – the real face of War

13. 1916–17 – the turning of the tide

14. The Middle East and the Sykes-Picot treaty – A poisonous legacy

15. How revolution ended the First World War

16. The Treaty of Versailles – the Peace to end all Peace