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OPINION with Sarah Clancy: Don’t look up, our house is on fire - The Clare Champion

This week as wildfires raged across Europe an image which will surely become a photo for the ages made the news. It was taken by Maximillian Lamy and distributed by AFP/Getty Images. It depicts a coup...

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Spent the last four weeks checking each line against the originals, but finally got it finished tonight. The Complete Shorter Works. Every pamphlet and booklet written/edited by Connolly, with a number of previously unpublished letters included as an appendix. On course for late autumn release.

James Connolly on a stretcher after the Easter Rising surrender, at the junction of what is now Parnell St and Cavendish Row, just before he was carried to Dublin Castle (via Capel St).

I think one of the hardest elements to get across in any article on James Connolly and the British army will be that the story of his enlistment in the King's Liverpool is based on little more than Captain Robert Monteith picking it because one of its volunteer regiments wore kilts.

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In National Archives Kew and found John Connolly ("James Reid"), brother of James, in the muster rolls of the Border Regiment, 1881. His army recruitment file hasn't survived but it appears from when he moved battalions that he enlisted around July 1880, when he was eighteen.

‘The Underman’ by Jim Larkin from International Socialist Review. Vol. 15 No. 9. March, 1915. A wonderful essay by Larkin introducing REVIEW readers to the ethos of the Underman and the history of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/07/21/t...

‘The Underman’ by Jim Larkin from International Socialist Review. Vol. 15 No. 9. March, 1915.

James Larkin at Liberty Hall with his secretary Mrs. McKeon during the Lockout A wonderful essay by Larkin introducing REVIEW readers to the ethos of the Underman and the history of the Irish Trans…

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'Workers in Hancock, Michigan Organize for Labor Rule' by Thomas J. O'Flaherty from The Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 34. April 25, 1924. O’Flaherty worked in many newspaper genres all with his own unmistakable style. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/07/13/j...

‘Workers in Hancock, Michigan Organize for Labor Rule’ by Thomas J. O’Flaherty from The Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 34. April 25, 1924.

O’Flaherty worked in many newspaper genres–daily columnist, short story writer, editorialist, investigative reporter–all with his own unmistakable style. Here he travels to way up…

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‘Capital Closes its Ranks in Ireland’ by Aodh MacManus from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 13 No. 41. September 15, 1933. MacManus on the 1933 formation of today’s Fine Gael party, one of Ireland’s primary capitalist parties. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/07/10/c...

‘Capital Closes its Ranks in Ireland’ by Aodh MacManus from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 13 No. 41. September 15, 1933.

Fascist Blueshirts on parade. MacManus on the 1933 formation of today’s Fine Gael party, one of Ireland’s primary capitalist parties through the merger of the Pro-treaty Cumann na nGaed…

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New article in @jacobinmag.bsky.social

Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 4w ago

Mainstream economics cannot accept the concept of contradiction that is foundational for Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. David Harvey explains why we need the Marxist perspective if we want to make sense of capital’s latest mutations in the age of AI.

“Problems have solutions. Contradictions do not. They are permanent points of tension that can only be managed within the system in which they are embedded. They only go away when the system as a whole disappears.”

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New article in @jacobinmag.bsky.social

Thanks to The Clare Champion for giving me the space to rant again this time about tech bros and their necks. clarechampion.ie/opinion-with...

OPINION with Sarah Clancy: Tech bros? Someone has to say no - The Clare Champion

‘We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings,’’ Ursula K Le Guin. Around a decade or so ago I was ...

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#OnThisDay in London rebel history: Marion Wallace Dunlop begins first suffragette hunger strike, 1909 wp.me/p74yfw-nT

Today in London rebel history: Marion Wallace Dunlop begins first suffragette hunger strike, 1909

On 5 July 1909, the imprisoned suffragette Marion Wallace Dunlop, a sculptor and illustrator, went on hunger strike; pretty much inventing the tactic as a modern political weapon. A member of the W…

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Money: A Guide for Activists is a workshop series delivered by @conormccabe.bsky.social We supported a recent collaboration with Clare PPN, where Conor drew on progressive and feminist economics to help participants understand the class relations structuring the state

Our community conversations on how we can manage mis and disinformation are continuing next week. They are free and open to the public if you'd like to join us- this one is in De Valera Library, Ennis, County Clare next Monday 6th July at 11 am- until 1 PM.

I have a letter in the latest edition of @historyireland.bsky.social dealing with the ongoing stubborn myths surrounding the army career of John Connolly, brother of James. historyireland.com/john-connoll...

Close-ups of amendments made to the original draft of Connolly's address to the Irish workers of America (1897).

In 1902, James Connolly reached out to a Yiddish-speaking Marxist network in Whitechapel to help him connect with immigrant voters in Dublin. My latest article looks at the activists who fought the jingoism and antisemitism of the early British left. leadenskies.substack.com/p/yiddish-ma...

Yiddish, Marx, Connolly and British Communism

The internationalist backbone of British socialism was partly forged in the sweatshops and print rooms of London’s East End at the turn of the 20th century.

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#OnThisDay in parliamentary history: George Lansbury protests torture of jailed suffragettes & gets suspended from Parliament, 1912. wp.me/p74yfw-bt

Today in parliamentary history: George Lansbury protests torture of jailed suffragettes & gets suspended from Parliament, 1912.

George Lansbury, Labour MP for Bow and Bromley, peace activist, opponent of the Boer War and World War 1, and probably the most leftwing leader the Labour Party ever had (without exception), was al…

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Another day another lost Connolly letter found, this time in an archive in Berlin. It's not catalogued so the archive doesn't even know it has it. I found it just by basic gumshoe research, systemically working through the files.

‘Manifesto of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Ireland’ from The Communist (National Organization Committee). Vol. 1 No. 2. July 26, 1919. A fascinating document from a moment in Ireland’s Revolution. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2026/06/21/m...

‘Manifesto of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Ireland’ from The Communist (National Organization Committee). Vol. 1 No. 2. July 26, 1919.

Bruree Workers Soviet Mills A fascinating document from a moment in Ireland’s Revolution. Early 1919 and the revolutionary wave was cresting across Europe, with Ireland also participating in …

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Really disappointing to see AI slop being used in so many posters for Bloomsday events. At least one of these has got DCC's logo on it.

1/ Photo of Patrick James McIntyre, one of two men (the other being Edward Stewart) who started the rumour in 1913 that Connolly joined and deserted the British army.

During the Second World War Dublin Zoo had a Russian bear called Trotsky - (on the left - appropriately - in the picture).

"When the revolution comes, who will do the dishes?" James Connolly: "We'll have a rota"

Cabman's shelter, main setting for the Eumaeus chapter in Ulysses - across from Liberty Hall and around 30 metres from the Connolly memorial, making Beresford Place the natural starting point for the Connolly Bloomsday walk.

Just showed up in my inbox - proof copy of the second volume of Connolly's collected writings - the complete shorter works. This brings together all of his pamphlets - including ones he edited which have never been republished. Amazing work by @iskrabooks.bsky.social On target for autumn release.

We've two places left on this excellent training in Ennis with Dr Conor McCabe. It's on Friday evening 6 - 8.30 and then on Saturday from 10 to 5.30. Conor is brilliant and will be taking people on a whistle stop tour through political economy and the Irish state. email newsletter@clareppn.ie

Connolly walk now added to the Bloomsday Festival, delighted to say www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/james-...

James Connolly and Ulysses: A Joycean Walk Through the Workers’ Republic - Bloomsday Festival

Explore the surprising links between James Connolly and Ulysses on a Joycean walk through Dublin’s class politics at the turn of the century on Sunday, 14th June at 12pm. From 1898 to 1903, James Conn...

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