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capitalism, The Social-Democratic Federation in 1884
objected 'to an expedition to the Sudan ""under the pretence
of rescuing Gordon, but really for the purpose of annexing
the country and establishing capitalist domination
throughout the Soudan. " Cl)
A number of S. D. )', branches
passed recolutions against the Sudan campaign in 1885,
including one from Salford which stated "there would be no
Egyptian problem without English and Jewish spoculatora.
Working men had no quarrel with the Arabs. 1"C2) The S. D. F.
made' Como attempt to establish solidarity with the Egyptian,,
"The canoe of the oppressed Egyptian pennants is the cause
of the wage earners of England. "
(3)
The Socialist League
strongly denounced the Sudan expedition an armed robbery, -
",. every English soldier'that dien in Egypt, in, as a soldier,
in the ponitton of a thief who is killed in an attemjt to
commit murder. "
(4)
gocialiot organisations represented only a minority
of the population. A larger and Important element in the
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1 Junticef 24th May i864.
(2) ! lford Weokly Newf, February 18854,
(3) üu_, m, tice
,, 26th January 1884"
(4) Cor ionwoni,, February 1885.