James Connolly, politically unexpurgated

James Connolly

Connolly and the Catholic "Orange Order", Solidarity 613, with "The Ancient Order of Hibernians", Forward 18 March 1911 (original headline “Mr John E Redmond MP: His Strength and Weakness”)

Yellow unions in Ireland, Solidarity 614, from Forward 20 June 1914, with an introduction

The churches and the mobs in the battle for human freedom, Solidarity 615, with “The Irish Presbyterians and Home Rule”, Forward 21 June 1913

What is the sympathetic strike?, Solidarity 622, with: section from "Labour in Dublin", The Irish Review October 1913; "Old wine in new bottles", The Age, 30 April 1914; and "The Dublin lock-out: on the eve", Irish Worker 30 August 1913 (original headline “If it is going to be a wedding, let it be a wedding; and if it is going to be a wake, let it be a wake”).

Who was James Connolly?, by Sean Matgamna, Solidarity 623

Connolly's critique of De Leon's Marxism, Solidarity 624, with "Wages, Marriage, and the Church", Weekly People 9 April 1904

Connolly as Home Rule reformist (1), Solidarity 625, with "Labour in the new Irish Parliament", Forward, 4 July 1914, and "Motion for a Belfast meeting, 1912"

Connolly as Home Rule reformist (2), Solidarity 626, with "A plea for socialist unity in Ireland", Forward 27 May 1911, and "Ireland, Karl Marx and William Walker", Forward 10 June 1911

Connolly as Home Rule reformist (3), Solidarity 628: "The phases of James Connolly", by Sean Matgamna, with "The United Irish League, the Labour Party and 'the pleasant relations'", Forward 3 May 1913, and "Many-headed opposition", an extract from "Notes from Ireland: bigotry and agitation”, in Forward 10 May 1913

The religiosity of Connolly and Larkin (1), Solidarity 629, with "Faith and Fatherland", Workers’ Republic 13 August 1898, and Connolly ’s Yiddish leaflet to workers in Dublin, 1902

The religiosity of Connolly and Larkin (2), Solidarity 630, with "Socialism and religion", Workers’ Republic 17 June 1899, "Roman Catholicism and Socialism", The Harp September 1908, and "Only posing" (excerpt from letter to John Carstairs Matheson, 30 January 1908)

The Dublin Labour War, 1913-14 (1), Solidarity 633, with "Glorious Dublin!", Forward 4 October 1913

The Dublin Labour War, 1913-14 (2), Solidarity 634, with "A titanic struggle", Daily Herald 6 December 1913

The Dublin Labour War, 1913-14 (3), Solidarity 635, with "The isolation of Dublin", Forward 9 February 1914, and "A lesson from Dublin", Forward 21 February 1914

Connolly on partition (1), Solidarity 639, with "Labour and the proposed partition of Ireland", Irish Worker 14 March 1914; "What partition would mean", excerpt from "Industrial Unity and Political Division in Ireland", Forward 21 March 1914; and "The exclusion of Ulster: capitalist Home Rule tricksters", Forward 11 April 1914

Connolly on partition (2), Solidarity 640, with "Address to the Irish TUC", Irish Worker 30 May 1914; Motion to the Irish TUC, 1-3 June 1914; and Irish TUC statement of 17 March 1914, from Irish Worker 21 March 1914

Connolly and the Protestant workers (1), Solidarity 641, with "The 12th of July", Forward 12 July 1913

Connolly and the Protestant workers (2), Solidarity 642, with "The Irish in History“ from "Harp Strings”, The Harp January 1908

Connolly and the Protestant workers (3): Partition and the Protestant workers, by Sean Matgamna, Solidarity 643

Connolly and the Protestant workers (4): The British Marxists, Ireland and Ulster, Solidarity 644, with "Would Ulster be right to fight"?, by Harry Quelch, The British Socialist 15 September 1912; Resolution of the Irish Presbyterian Convention of February 1912, reaffirmed by the General Assembly January 1913; The Ulster Covenant, 1912

Connolly and the Protestant workers (5), Solidarity 645, with "North-East Ulster", Forward 2 August 1913

Connolly on partition and the Protestant workers: What was James Connolly's alternative to partition?, by Sean Matgamna, Solidarity 646

Connolly on partition and the Protestant workers: Solidarity 648, with Connolly's debate with George Barnes: “Home Rule, etc.”, by Barnes, Forward 11 April 1914; "Ireland on the dissecting table", Forward 18 April 1914

Connolly on partition and the Protestant workers, Solidarity 650, with "The Liberals and Ulster", Forward 30 May 1914

Connolly on partition and the Protestant workers - final summary, by Sean Matgamna, Solidarity 651

Connolly and World War One (1)Solidarity 652, with "Our Duty in This Crisis", Irish Worker 8 August 1914, and "A Martyr for Conscience Sake", Forward 22 August 1914

Connolly and World War One (2): Connolly, the socialists and August 1914, by Sean Matgamna, Solidarity 653

Connolly, German warmonger (1), Solidarity 655, with "The war upon the German nation" Irish Worker 29 August 1914, and "The friends of small nationalities", Irish Worker 12 September 1914

Connolly, German warmonger (2), Solidarity 656, with "Some perverted battle lines", Irish Worker 29 August 1914, and "How England sacrificed Belgium", Irish Worker 12 September 1914

A continental revolution, Solidarity 658, Forward 15 August 1914

Running with the hare and riding with the hounds: James Connolly in World War One, by Sean Matgamna, Workers' Liberty 3/71, published with Solidarity 662

Connolly and Marxism: introduction, Solidarity 664, with "James Keir Hardie", Workers’ Republic 2 October 1915, and "The children, the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, and the Archbishop", Forward 1 November 1913

Connolly's Marxism part two, Solidarity 665, with "Socialism has only one great principle", from Labour, Nationality, and Religion, 1910.

Connolly's Marxism part three, Solidarity 666, with "Socialism and religion", Workers’ Republic 17 June 1899, and "A political party of the workers", The Harp, January 1908.

Connolly's Marxism part four, Solidarity 667, with "Physical force in Irish politics", Workers’ Republic, 22 July 1899, and "Socialism and nationalism", Shan Van Vocht, January 1897.

Connolly's Marxism part five, Solidarity 668: "Connolly and religion", by Sean Matgamna

Connolly's Marxism part six, Solidarity 669: "Socialism or Catholic Church".

Connolly, the strike and the children of Dublin (Connolly's Marxism part seven), by Sean Matgamna, Solidarity 670, with Grace Neal from Plebs magazine, 1916; Francis Sheehy Skeffington from the Daily HeraldIrish Worker, 1 November 1913

• Connolly's Marxism part eight, Solidarity 671: "Socialism in Ireland", The Harp, March 1908, and "The Land Acts and Socialism", originally published under the same headline, "Socialism in Ireland", Forward, 16 August 1913

Connolly's historiography part one, Solidarity 672: "The Conquest of Ireland" (chapter 1 of "The Reconquest of Ireland").

Connolly's historiography part two, Solidarity 673: "The Irish working-class and its inheritance" (Foreword to "Labour in Irish History").

Connolly's historiography part three, Solidarity 674: "National and economic subjection in Irish history" (chapter 1 of "Labour in Irish History").

Connolly's historiography part Four, Solidarity 675: "A socialistic nation of scholars and students" (From Erin's Hope, 1897).

"Connolly's history and his socialism", by Sean Matgamna, Solidarity 676 and Workers' Liberty 3/72

Connolly and the Easter Rising, a series of articles introduced by Sean Matgamna, Solidarity 678

Connolly and the 1916 Rising, part 2, Solidarity 680


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The "legacy" of Connolly, by Liam McNulty, Solidarity 682

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