The Lost WritingsJames Connolly was a prolific writer of books, tracts, articles and essays, and conducted a voluminous correspondence with ideological friends and foes of every persuasion. This selection of just over 100 previously uncollected articles and essays is arranged into six sections, corresponding to the journals in which they originally appeared: The Workers Republic; The Socialist; The Harp; The Irish Worker; The Worker; and The Workers Republic (1915-1916). Each section is prefaced with a brief historical context, and explanatory footnotes are included throughout. The introduction provides a biographical sketch of the man and his times and an account of the tangled history of the posthumous publication of Connolly's work - providing a mirror of developments in the Irish labour movement since Connolly's death. |
Contents
PART ONE THE WORKERS REPUBLIC 1898190315 | 15 |
Home Thrusts Home Rulers labour representation and trade | 21 |
The Sweating System | 28 |
Farmers Demands | 36 |
Difficulties of Socialism | 42 |
Home Thrusts The Spiritual Inheritance of the Celt | 49 |
To the Electors | 57 |
Unpatriotic? | 63 |
To Irish Wage Workers in America | 100 |
PART FOUR THE IRISH WORKER 19111914 | 115 |
Direct Action in Belfast123 | 123 |
Home Thrusts The Special Conference | 129 |
The National Danger | 138 |
The Position of the Nation | 144 |
PART FIVE THE WORKER 19141915 | 151 |
Our Rulers as a Study | 159 |
Its Origin its Press and its Policies | 71 |
Loubet and other Things | 76 |
PART THREE THE HARP 19081910 | 85 |
Our Purpose and Function | 92 |
A Railway Thief | 166 |
Coercion in England | 172 |
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