James Connolly

Class against class in Dublin

James Connolly on the end of the Dublin workers' revolt of 1913. Download pdf. The isolation of Dublin

Connolly's politics, or The Green Above the Red? IRSP/AWL Debate Irish Republicanism and Socialism (1982)

Connolly, or The Green Above the Red? Introduction INLA and the Irish National Question Debate: 1. SO: The Irish Republican Socialist Party in politics 2. The IRSP: The prejudices of British reformism against Irish revolutionaries masquerading as Marxism 3. SO: Connolly's politics, or The Green Above the Red? Other articles on the Irish left in the Election: 1. Hung Dail has no answers 2.The Provos turn to politics 3. Provisionals' topsy-turvy view 4. Irish workers can't afford to wait for socialist policies

In Defense of Revisionism (1946)

The survival and expansion of Russian Stalinism threw all the political compass points of Trotsky's pre-World War "Trotskyism" into seismic confusion. Years of political ferment produced two "Trotskyisms" - Shachtmanites and Cannonites. The tiny Irish Group in this document declared for Shachtman. Since the formation of the Workers Party the theories of Shachtmanite comrades have reached the average party member in the Fourth International only at second hand; and, even then, chiefly in the form of excerpts published with the aim of discrediting them. The majority of comrades interested in...

I once knew a man who was shot by a Provisional IRA gang which included Adams ( 2002) [missing text replaced version]

Seeing pictures of Gerry Adams grinning his Cheshire-cat-who-has-eaten-six-mice grin in triumph at SF/PIRA's latest success reminded me that I once knew a man who was shot by a Provisional IRA gang which included Adams. His name was John Magennis. Who was he? A British soldier? A member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary? A member of an Orange paramilitary group? One of the Northern Ireland workers shot by the Provisional IRA in the early 1990s for doing repair work on RUC stations? No, John Magennis was a Republican. He belonged to the then mainstream Republican movement from which the...

I once knew a man who was shot by a Provisional IRA gang which included Adams ( 2002) [missing text replaced version]

Seeing pictures of Gerry Adams grinning his Cheshire-cat-who-has-eaten-six-mice grin in triumph at SF/PIRA's latest success reminded me that I once knew a man who was shot by a Provisional IRA gang which included Adams. His name was John Magennis. Who was he? A British soldier? A member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary? A member of an Orange paramilitary group? One of the Northern Ireland workers shot by the Provisional IRA in the early 1990s for doing repair work on RUC stations? No, John Magennis was a Republican. He belonged to the then mainstream Republican movement from which the...

A debate on "Tony Benn and the lies the left tells itself about Ireland" (1988)

Geoff Bell: There is nothing wrong in reassessing Marxist interpretations, but where this has led Socialist Organiser as far as this particular exercise is concerned is to the other side of the class divide. This is illustrated in the January edition of the magazine Workers' Liberty and an article therein by Sean Matgamna. This is entitled "Ireland: lies the left tells itself". A more fitting headline would have been "Ireland: examples of the lies the right tells itself". For what has now emerged from what at first was a sloppy and impressionistic analysis is the one which stands four square...

Tony Benn and the lies the left tells itself about Ireland (1988)

From Workers' Liberty 9, 1988: an analysis of left "conventional wisdoms" on Ireland, in response to a speech by Tony Benn. Elsewhere in Workers Liberty we print a recent speech by Tony Benn on Ireland. ( Click here to read Benn's speech ). Benn is deservedly one of the most respected voices on the left. Apart, perhaps, from his proposal that UN troops should replace the British in Northern Ireland, his views on Ireland are typical of the left — typically wrong-headed. Tony Benn rightly says that the media burkes discussion of the issue. But so does the left — we stifle ourselves with...

When the Weekly Worker Group ("CPGB") Backed Imperialism in Afghanistan (2004). An Exercise in Political Sanitation.

Introduction. Afghanistan: the Russian Invasion and the Left "The Stalinist April 1978 Coup and the December 1979 Russian Invasion "Workers' Voice", the "CPGB's" Turkish Stalinist Mentors Conrad and Fisher on Afghanistan: The Tankies' Tankies -1 The Tankies' Tankies -2 The Tankies' Tankies -3 The Tankies' Tankies -4 The Tankies' Tankies -5 Stalinist Mind At End Of Its Tether -1 Stalinist Mind At End Of Its Tether -2 Stalinist Mind At End Of Its Tether-3 Stalinist Mind At End Of Its Tether -4 Stalinist Mind At End Of Its Tether-5

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