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category down | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Monday September 22, 2003 20:18author by Mark Hewitt - SWP Belfastauthor email niswp at yahoo dot co dot uk Report this post to the editors

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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.
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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.

Instead Connolly’s tradition is that of an internationalist and of a revolutionary socialist. He was directly involved in the workers movement not only in Ireland but also in Scotland and America.

Today Connolly has a lot to teach the anti-war movement and socialists active inside it. He was one of the first people to understand that to stop war you have to change the system fundamentally and that regime change must start at home.



7.30pm Thursday, 25th September, Cafe Arcadia, North Street Arcade (Opposite John Hewitt Bar)

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Reading Material Links :


Review of 2 books of Connolly's writings
http://www.isj1text.ble.org.uk/pubs/isj80/jcon.htm

Labour in Irish History
http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1910/lih/index.htm

The Walker-Connolly Controversy
http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1911/connwalk/index.htm

James Connolly Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/index.htm

Related Link: http://www.niswp.tk
author by Jim Monaghanpublication date Tue Sep 23, 2003 09:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

One 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.

 
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