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The Politics of James Connolly
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Monday September 22, 2003 20:18 by Mark Hewitt - SWP Belfast niswp at yahoo dot co dot uk
Marxist Forum The next in our series of city centre Marxist Forums will continue this Thursday at Café Arcadia with a look into the life and politics of James Connolly. Since his execution in 1916 Connolly’s ideas have been distorted by the rightwing establishment in the south who have tried to brand Connolly as one of their own. As a result of this distortion many people have ignored his ideas because he has been upheld as a nationalist hero. |
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Jump To Comment: 1One point if 1916 had not occured there would have been conscription. A wet day in Flanders would have killed more Irish than all of 1916 and the war of Independence, ok throw in the Civil War.
As it was there was economic conscription where the employers sacked those unwilling to sign up.
1916 put an end to that.
Our current crop of rulers want to send cannon fodder to Iraq and other places.
The Home Rule party and it's supporters were conned and the Irish People were realising this. Redmond and Dillon were responsible for a multiple of the casualties of 1916 because of their undemocratic support of British Imperialism.1916 accelerated this process of realisation.
Oh another website.
www.workersrepublic.org
Redmond and Dillon were responsible for a number of deaths which makes 1916 pale in comparison.Being antiwar does not mean being a pacifist.
This site has some writing by Ranor Lysaght. Unfortunately the bulk of his studies on Connolly are scattered over a number of left wing journals.Connolly has a lot to teach us, this does not mean slavishly agreeing with everything he wrote. We should see him in the context of his times.