The Guardian represented the 'soft Left' of Britain - even so, it stuck out against the war till the last minute and the editor considered resigning
The left throughout Europe opposed th war totally - The Bolsheviks won power because of just that - the Mensheviks (Liberal Democrat Majority) insisted on the troops returning to the front to finish the war and then confirming the revolution.
Trotsy, as Bolshevik representative, went to Brest Litovsk, stuck his feet on the table and declared "neither war nor peace", insisting that the war end and revolution should begin throughout Europe - that was the stance of The International, the group that represented the genuine left in Europe.
The fact that the German Left immediately entered into revolution and nearly won proved that the war need never have happened as a significant majority of the German people were against it.
Had this ben successful neither Stalin nor Hitler would never have been issues - both were products of the failures of WW1.
Go read a book instead of scrabbling around for cut-'n-pastes for ****'* sake.
Jim Carroll