A James Connolly Reader
James Connolly served in the British Army for seven years but would go on to lead the 1916 Irish Rising against British rule in Dublin. Following service he joined the socialist movement in Scotland. He founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party and pioneered the application of Marxist ideas to Irish questions. His goal was a socialist Workers' Republic. In the United States Connolly joined the IWW in 1905 and campaigned across the country with the Socialist Party for Eugene Debs for President. In 1916 he believed Europe was ripe for revolution and hoped an Irish insurrection could act as a spark. He was correct and for this he was executed…
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Weitere Autoren: Harkin, Shaun (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-60846-666-5
- EAN: 9781608466665
- Produktnummer: 22856198
- Verlag: Haymarket Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 250 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'112 KB
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Shaun Harkin: Shaun Harkin is an activist and writer presently based in Derry City, Ireland. He is a member of the Irish Socialist Workers Party and the People Before Profit Alliance. He is a regular contributor to Socialist Worker (U.S.), the International Socialist Review, and? Socialist Worker (Ireland).James Connolly: James Connolly (1868 -1916) was an Irish republican and socialist leader, aligned to syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World. He became one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. He was executed by a British firing squad because of his leadership role in the Easter Rising of 1916.
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