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This leaflet was produced by the Irish Trotskyists of the Revolutionary Socialist Party in 1948. A section of the Cannon-Pablo-Mandel Fourth International, the RSP had adopted the politics of the Workers Party USA, the Shachtman organisation. The “coalition” referred to is the Dublin government formed after the the February 1948 election in the 26 Counties.
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[A text of the Irish Trotskyists of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, 1947]
On Easter Monday 1916, some hundreds of republicans and socialists rose in arms in Dublin to overthrow the centuries-old British rule in Ireland. Among their leaders was James Connolly, who for most of the years since 1896 had been the leading writer and agitator for socialism in Ireland and amongst the Irish in America [1903 -1910].
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An article by Matt Merrigan in the New York "Shachtmanite" weekly, Labor Action, 19 September 1955, vol.19 no.38. The original title was "Festering Sore: the Partition of Ireland", and it was datelined "Dublin, August 24".
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Article from Workers' Republic 19, mid-summer 1967.
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On 30 January 1972, British Army soldiers in Derry, Northern Ireland fired on Catholics demonstrating for civil rights.
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Lucas Arms, 245a Gray's Inn Road, London
Constance Gore-Booth was born into an Anglo-Irish landowning family in 1868. In her 20s in London she became comitted to votes for women.
Later, after marrying Count Casimir Markiewicz from Poland, and moving to Dublin she became involved in the Irish nationalist movement. In 1908 Constance joined Sinn Fein. But she was also becoming more interested in the struggles of Irish workers.
During the Dublin lock-out of 1913 she threw herself into solidarity work. She took part in the Easter Rising of April 1916, was arrested and charged with treason. Initially condemned to death, her sentence was was commuted to life imprisonment, then she was released in 1917.
Constance Markiewicz was the only woman who was successful in the 1918 General Election (as a Sinn Fein candidate) but did not attend the House of Commons in London. She opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Come and hear about and discuss the fascinating political life of Constance Markiewicz.
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In the evolution of civilisation, the progress of the fight for national liberty of any subject nation must, perforce, keep pace with the struggle for liberty of the most subject class in that nation.
James Connolly
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Ennis, Christmas Eve 1933
On Christmas Eve, 24 December 1933, in the West of Ireland town of Ennis, County Clare, members of the Gardai visited 26 labourers. They handed each one of them a summons to appear in Court on charges of intimidation, assault, and conspiracy, in mid-January 1934.
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Communism in Ireland
What of communism in Ireland? James Connolly, whose whole history suggests that he would have rallied to the Russian Revolution and joined in the work of building the new Communist International, was of course dead 18 months before the Bolshevik Revolution. Jim Larkin, who would join the Communist International, was in America, and in the last part of his stay there, in jail. He would not return to Ireland until 1923.
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The Ennis bourgeoisie
The fact that the Irish national bourgeoisie did not lead the national movement in 1916 and after did not inhibit them from from creating a thickly mythological account of Irish history as a nationalist, or ethnic-sectarian, heroic and unrelenting struggle for freedom.
