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“James Connolly is primarily remembered in Irish history as the Socialist revolutionary hero of the Rising of 1916, executed in Kilmainham Prison while strapped to a chair. Connolly’s place in Irish history is far more important than that, however. He was a proud Socialist, the founder of both the Irish Socialist Republican Party and the Labour Party, and the writer of the influential pamphlets Labour in Irish History and The Reconquest of Ireland.” Reform to Revolution: The Ideological and Political Evolution of James Connolly “ In 1898 Connolly began writing, printing, and distributing his own newspaper, The Workers’ Republic. He used its pages to bitterly condemn the moderate Home Rule movement — “a plot to delude the Irish worker in the interest of his Irish master” — and outline the necessity for a revolutionary break with the British Empire.“Connolly at 150 (Jacobin) Reading Irish Revolutionary James Connolly (Portside) James Connolly‘s collected works, free and online (Marxists.org)
“The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.“
(Fun fact: Perhaps not surprisingly, Connolly was also an advocate for the global adoption of Esperanto.)
posted by gnomeloaf at 4:00 PM on March 17, 2020
(Fun fact: Perhaps not surprisingly, Connolly was also an advocate for the global adoption of Esperanto.)
posted by gnomeloaf at 4:00 PM on March 17, 2020
Esperanto: communism in words
My husband is probobly one of the few people who is still roughly fluent in Esperanto and I did mention the socialist history of it a few times in trying to push him left.
And a close comrade lie has a Esperanto twitter account soooo
Anyway, “A revolution will only be achieved when the ordinary people of the world, us, the working class, get up off our knees and take back what is rightfully ours.”-James Connolly
posted by The Whelk at 5:23 PM on March 17, 2020
My husband is probobly one of the few people who is still roughly fluent in Esperanto and I did mention the socialist history of it a few times in trying to push him left.
And a close comrade lie has a Esperanto twitter account soooo
Anyway, “A revolution will only be achieved when the ordinary people of the world, us, the working class, get up off our knees and take back what is rightfully ours.”-James Connolly
posted by The Whelk at 5:23 PM on March 17, 2020
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