The Dublin Labour War of 1913
Author: Vladimir Lenin and James Connolly Articles by Lenin and James Connolly on the Dublin Labour War of 1913. IntroductionWhen Margaret Thatcher's Tories outlawed "secondary" or solidarity...
View ArticleDublin 1913
Author: James Connolly Two articles by James Connolly on the Dublin Labour War of 1913. The Dublin Labour War was one of the great battles of the working class. In 1913, under the leadership of Jim...
View ArticleThe isolation of Dublin
Author: James Connolly On 9 December 1913, a special TUC conference considered a militant motion in favour of solidarity action with Dublin; union leaders opposed it, and won. We continue our series...
View ArticleIS and Ireland (1969)
is-irelandss.jpg Author: Rachel Lever, Sean Matgamna, and Joe Wright Workers' Fight (forerunner of AWL) polemicised against the support given by SWP (then called IS) for British troops being deployed...
View ArticleDublin 1913: the “proletarian army” is born
Author: Tom Harris A hundred years ago, tram workers in Dublin struck after their employer had tried to stop them being members of the Irish Transport and General Workers' union. The strike spread,...
View ArticleA hundred years since Ireland's Easter Rising
Author: Matt RawlinsBy 1916 the history of Ireland had been inextricably linked with that of Britain for seven hundred years, and the connection had not been a happy one. The English (and later,...
View ArticleConnolly and the Dublin lockout
Author: Michael JohnsonPart eight of Michael Johnson’s series on the life and politics of James Connolly. The rest of the series can be found here.While the Home Rule crisis raged in Ulster, the...
View ArticleJames Connolly: An Spailpin Fanach
Author: Sean MatgamnaAn Spailpin Fanach(Phrases in italics are James Connolly's)Young nightsoil man who shovels human shit Left in the streets for such as you to lift,James Connolly...
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