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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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"The Treason of the Intellectuals, and other political verse" by Sean Matgamna includes political verse previously published in Solidarity and its forerunners.
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We continue our series of articles by James Connolly about the 1913-14 Labour War in Dublin, and the power of the solidarity strike.
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The Dublin Labour War was one of the great battles of the working class. In 1913, under the leadership of Jim Larkin, the working class of Dublin was making Dublin one of the best organised cities in the world.
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Introduction
When Margaret Thatcher's Tories outlawed "secondary" or solidarity strikes, they knew what they were doing.
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What is wrong with physical force republicanism?
By James Connolly
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In March 1947, an immense crowd of people, 200,000 of them, many of the men bare-headed in freakishly Arctic weather, marched through Dublin behind the coffin of Jim Larkin, the founder of the modern
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One thousand men and a few women, one quarter of them the trade union militants of the Citizen Army, badly armed and with little training, went out into the streets of Dublin to challenge and to fight the greatest empire the world had seen. Many of them knew — certainly the leaders knew — that, given the isolation of Dublin, they had little chance of success.
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By Donagh MacDonagh
In Dublin City in 1913 the boss was rich and the poor were slaves
The women working, the children starving, then on came Larkin like a mighty wave
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An 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,
