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Dublin - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Re-Launch of Socialism Made Easy by James Connolly
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Tuesday March 21, 2006 20:34 by DSF - Sinn Féin dublinsinnfein at eircom dot net
Dublin Sinn Féin to re-launch "Socialism Made Easy". As part of its 90th Anniversary Easter 1916 Commemorative events, Dublin Sinn Féin will relaunch James Connolly's pamphlet "Socialism Made Easy" in the Cobblestone Bar, Smithfield at 8pm. Speakers include Cllr. Larry O'Toole and Noel Murphy from the IWU. There will music and song. Admission Free. All welcome. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4WELL, YOU WON'T GET THE IRISH TO HELP YOU. OUR IRISH-AMERICAN LEADERS TELL US THAT ALL WE IRISH IN THIS COUNTRY OUGHT TO STAND TOGETHER AND USE OUR VOTES TO FREE IRELAND.
Sure, let us free Ireland!
Never mind such base, carnal thoughts as concern work and wages, healthy homes, or lives unclouded by poverty.
Let us free Ireland!
The rackrenting landlord; is he not also an Irishman, and wherefore should we hate him? Nay, let us not speak harshly of our brother - yea, even when he raises our rent.
Let us free Ireland!
The profit-grinding capitalist, who robs us of three-fourths of the fruits of our labor, who sucks the very marrow of our bones when we are young, and then throws us out in the street, like a worn-out tool, when we are grown prematurely old in his service, is he not an Irishman, and mayhap a patriot, and wherefore should we think harshly of him?
Let us free Ireland!
'The land that bred and bore us.' And the landlord who makes us pay for permission to live upon it.
Whoop it up for liberty!
'Let us free Ireland,' says the patriot who won't touch Socialism.
Let us all join together and cr-r-rush the br-r-rutal Saxon. Let us all join together, says he, all classes and creeds.
And, says the town worker, after we have crushed the Saxon and freed Ireland, what will we do?
Oh, then you can go back to your slums, same as before.
Whoop it up for liberty!
And, says the agricultural workers, after we have freed Ireland, what then?
Oh, then you can go scraping around for the landlord's rent or the money-lenders' interest same as before.
Whoop it up for liberty!
After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch Socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won't pay your rent you will be evicted same as now. But the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms and the Harp without the Crown, and the warrant turning you out on the roadside will be stamped with the arms of the Irish Republic.
Now, isn't that worth fighting for?
And when you cannot find employment, and, giving up the struggle of life in despair, enter the Poorhouse, the band of the nearest regiment of the Irish army will escort you to the Poorhouse door to the tune of 'St. Patrick's Day'.
Oh, it will be nice to live in those days!
'With the Green Flag floating o'er us' and an ever-increasing army of unemployed workers walking about under the Green Flag, wishing they had something to eat. Same as now!
Whoop it up for liberty!
Now, my friend, I also am Irish, but I'm a bit more logical. The capitalist, I say, is a parasite on industry; as useless in the present stage of our industrial development as any other parasite in the animal or vegetable world is to the life of the animal or vegetable upon which it feeds.
The working class is the victim of this parasite - this human leech, and it is the duty and interest of the working class to use every means in its power to oust this parasite class from the position which enables it to thus prey upon the vitals of Labor.
Therefore, I say, let us organize as a class to meet our masters and destroy their mastership; organize to drive them from their hold upon public life through their political power; organize to wrench from their robber clutch the land and workshops on and in which they enslave us; organize to cleanse our social life from the stain of social cannibalism, from the preying of man upon his fellow man.
Organize for a full, free and happy life F0R ALL 0R F0R NONE.
SF might actually read it and realise that Connolly was not a nationalist. Connolly was not a supporter of Sinn Fein. Connolly was a revolutionary marxist internationalist. He would not want to do coalition deals with FF or DUP. He would not vote for bin taxes. He would not support sectarian conflict with protestants. He would not support terrorist tactics.
why in this day and age would anyone want to commemorate a long dead Scottish political dinosaur who propounded a discredited ideology whose only fruits have been poverty, moral degeneration and corruption?
ps I have nothing against Scottish or other non-english-speaking people.
Quite right. Adam Smith's free market coppycock destroys the lives of millions every day in the developing world - so we can reap the benefits. The privledged 10% crapping on the rest of humanity. such progress!