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May Day: Changes (1914)

In this article James Connolly explains the limitations of parliamentary actions and the need for a mass industrial and political movement to transform society. As the example of the Irish Labour Party in power demonstrates, holding office in no guarantee of guaranteeing change in the interests of working people.

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Protect Your Women (1915)

International Women's Day: This article, which was published in the Workers' Republic in September 1915 demonstrates Connolly's ideas around the treatment of working women in Ireland. Specifically the way that women were exploited by capitalism. On International Working Women's day some 97 years later these ideas have lost none of their power and clarity.

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Ireland and the politics of bigotry – Part Five

The compromise of the “Irish Free State” was too unsatisfactory to Irish Republicans and to the Irish in general, to survive. They wanted total independence.

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Ireland and the politics of bigotry – Part Six

It happens every July - the marching season. Through the streets of cities in Northern Ireland and Scotland the Orange Walks take place, come rain or shine.

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Ireland and the politics of bigotry – Part Four

Parnell's Home Rule Party was divided by the exposure of his affair with a married woman, Kitty O'Shea. She left her husband before she ever took up with Parnell and was his mistress for ten years before her husband sued for divorce, citing Parnell as a co-respondent.

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