James Connolly: A Working Class Hero

We are out for Ireland for the Irish. But who are the Irish? Not the rack-renting, slum-owning landlord; not the sweating, profit-grinding capitalist; not the sleek and oily lawyer; not the prostitute pressman - the hired liars of the enemy. Not these are the Irish upon whom the future depends. Not these, but the Irish working class, the only secure foundation upon which a free nation can be reared.

The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour. They cannot be dissevered. Ireland seeks freedom. Labour seeks that an Ireland free should be the sole mistress of her own destiny, supreme owner of all material things within and upon her soil. Labour seeks to make the free Irish nation the guardian of the interests of the people of Ireland, and to secure that end would vest in that free Irish nation all property rights as against the claims of the individual, with the end in view that the individual may be enriched by the nation, and not by the spoiling of his fellows.

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[Tag20079]

Connolly must be spinnin in his grave, the state the country is now. Greed and corruption and the workin man the poor cunt gettin fucked

[xXTotalDIsCordXx]

politicians are avarice soaked, and morally bereft.

Up a United & Free Republic.

[IronManX95]

Heres the thing most of northern ireland wants to stay british thats good leave them alone, if you wanna be irish fuck away down south no one cares anymore