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Rocker opposed both sides in World War I on internationalist grounds.

Although most in the United Kingdom and continental Europe expected a short war, Rocker predicted on August 7, 1914 " a period of mass murder such as the world has never known before " and attacked the Second International for not opposing the conflict.

Rocker with some other Arbeter Fraint members opened up a soup kitchen without fixed prices to alleviate the further impoverishment that came with the Great War.

There was a debate between Kropotkin, who supported the Allies, and Rocker in Arbeter Fraint in October and November.

He called the war " the contradiction of everything we had fought for ".