Nationalism and Labor in Ireland, Part II

When James Connolly was executed by a British firing squad after the 1916 Rebellion, the Irish working class lost its most competent and courageous leader. No one of equal stature has yet arisen in the Irish labor movement to take his place as leader and theorist. Connolly was forty-six when he died, but for most of his adult life he had labored in the building of an Irish socialist and trade-union movement which he hoped would be guided by the teachings of Marx and Engels.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

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