From ANZAC to AUKUS: More than a century of carnage and cowardice

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From ANZAC to AUKUS: More than a century of carnage and cowardice

In 1914, as World War I began, European and British workers willingly signed up to what amounted to ritualistic class suicide in a bloody battle over imperialist spoils, while 420,000 Australian working men were sent to the Western Front and the Middle East, including the slaughter at Gallipoli, writes James Wyner.