 Although the FVdG insisted that the " goal is everything and ... must be everything " ( a play on Bernstein 's formula that " the final goal , whatever it may be , is nothing to me : the movement is everything " ) , it was unable to do much more than keep its own structures alive during World War I. Immediately after the declaration of war , FVdG tried to continue its antiwar demonstrations to no avail . Although it constantly criticized the Burgfrieden and militarism in general , industrial action was not possible except for a few minor cases ( most notably resistance by the carpenters ' union to Sunday work ) . The FVdG also received support from abroad . The faction in the Italian USI led by Armando Borghi , an antimilitarist minority in the French CGT , the Dutch NAS , as well as Spanish , Swedish , and Danish syndicalists were all united with the FVdG in their opposition to the war . 
