No conscription league

No conscription league

No Conscription League was the name of several organizations opposed to conscription into the military:
* 'No Conscription Leagues were organised by Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and other anarchists in United States during World War I.
* A No Conscription League was founded in United Kingdom in January 1939. It dissolved after the introduction of full-time conscription at the beginning of World War II.

See also: Conscription Crisis


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