James Connolly

Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary · United Kingdom · Activists · Lived 1868 to 1916 · aged 47

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A socialist organizer who believed Irish independence meant breaking free not just from British rule but from British capital, he led armed insurrection from Dublin's General Post Office in 1916 and was executed for it.

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1916Died12 May 1916“The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour.”In their words8 April 1916Workers' Republic 8 April, 1916. Reprinted in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 145.Read the whole statement

1915“We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times. These are exceptional times.”In their words4 December 1915Workers Republic (socialist newspaper) 4 December, 1915 in “Trust Your Leaders!”Read the whole statement

“The fight in Ireland has been one for the soul of a race - that Irish race which with seven centuries of defeat behind it still battled for the sanctity of its dwelling place.”In their words7 August 1915'Ireland’s Travail and Ireland’s Resurrection,' Workers’ Republic, 7 August 1915.Read the whole statement

1910“Men perish but principles live.”In their wordsLabour, Nationality and Religion (1910)Read the whole statement

1907“Our demands most moderate are: we only want the earth.”In their wordsBe Moderate (1907)Read the whole statement

1897“If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.”In their wordsJanuary 1897Shan Van Vocht, January, 1897. Reprinted in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 124.Read the whole statement

1868Born5 June 1868

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The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour.
Apr 8, 1916, Workers' Republic 8 April, 1916. Reprinted in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 145., Own words
We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times. These are exceptional times.
Dec 4, 1915, Workers Republic (socialist newspaper) 4 December, 1915 in “Trust Your Leaders!”, Own words
Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
Aug 29, 1915, The Irish Worker, 29 August, 1915. Reprinted in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 248, Own words

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Born in Scotland in 1868 to Irish parents, Connolly became an active socialist before moving to Ireland in 1896 and founding the country's first socialist party, the Irish Socialist Republican Party. He spent 1905 to 1910 in the United States as an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, choosing syndicalism over rigid Marxism. Back in Ireland, he worked for the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, first in Belfast - where he failed to unite Protestant workers into an all-Ireland labour movement - then in Dublin. The industrial unrest of 1913 gave him a new instrument: the union's militia, the Irish Citizen Army. At the start of 1916, he committed it to the plans for wartime insurrection. Alongside Patrick Pearse, he commanded the Easter Rising from the rebel garrison in Dublin's General Post Office, was wounded in the fighting, and after the surrender was executed with the six other signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic on 12 May 1916.

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