Aiming to replace capitalism with socialism, James Connolly’s organising and ideas evolved considerably. One idea he clung to from the turn of the century to his death in 1916 was industrial unionism, workers’ solidarity across grades and trades and sympathetic strikes. That is how he saw his work in the Irish Transport Union.
Aiming to replace capitalism with socialism, James Connolly’s organising and ideas evolved considerably. One idea he clung to from the turn of the century to his death in 1916 was industrial unionism, workers’ solidarity across grades and trades and sympathetic strikes. That is how he saw his work with Larkin on the Irish Transport Union: a union for an industry and the members watching the moment until they could take over running the industry. His articles on that theme have never previously been collected compactly, and many appear in this short book for the first time in full since original publication.
• Introduction, by Liam McNulty and Sean Matgamna
• Industrial Unionism and Constructive Socialism
• What is the Sympathetic Strike?
• Industrialism and the Trade Unions
• Industrial and Political Unity
• The Dublin Lockout: On the Eve
• Glorious Dublin!
• The Isolation of Dublin
• The Problem of Trade Union Organisation•
• Old Wine in New Bottles
• A Lesson of the Strike
• The Immigrant
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