United Kingdom
James Connolly
said
The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour.
— Workers' Republic 8 April, 1916. Reprinted in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 145.
James Connolly
Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary
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Lived 1868–1916, aged 48United Kingdom
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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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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 uni…
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James Connolly
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We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times. These are exceptional times.
— Workers Republic (socialist newspaper) 4 December, 1915 in “Trust Your Leaders!”
James Connolly
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Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
— The Irish Worker, 29 August, 1915. Reprinted in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 248
James Connolly
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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.
— 'Ireland’s Travail and Ireland’s Resurrection,' Workers’ Republic, 7 August 1915.
James Connolly
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Men perish but principles live.
— Labour, Nationality and Religion (1910)
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