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Apr 15, 2024 |
jacobin.com | Ronan Burtenshaw
In Europe, Ireland is an exception. A colony surrounded by the world’s foremost colonial powers, its culture has long been distinct from its neighbors. This was just as much the case when it came to Irish socialism as for any other pursuit. While European contemporaries were committed to secular approaches by the turn of the […] Sorry, but this article is available to subscribers only. Please log in or become a subscriber. Log In with Password Log In with Sign-In Code
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Mar 16, 2024 |
jacobin.com | Ronan Burtenshaw
The Irish in America have a proud tradition of labor radicalism. In the 1870s, the Molly Maguires organized miners in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones fought the workers’ corner in the United Mine Workers and Industrial Workers of the World, where she was joined by another Irishwoman, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Even James Connolly and James Larkin, founding fathers of Irish syndicalism, organized workers in the United States for many years of their lives.
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Jan 30, 2024 |
jacobin.com | Ronan Burtenshaw
The fact that Jim Larkin insisted throughout his life that he had been born in 1876 in Ireland makes it a little strange to write a tribute on his 150th anniversary. In fact, his iconic gravestone in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery carries that date, as did the first thorough biography of his life, written by his namesake, the late Irish American historian Emmet Larkin.
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Oct 23, 2023 |
socialistproject.ca | Ronan Burtenshaw
Anti-Racism • October 24, 2023 • For over 75 years, Palestinians have been subject to occupation and apartheid. Condemning the latest violence but remaining silent about that injustice only exposes the West’s staggering hypocrisy. Things couldn’t stay as they were – and so, they didn’t.
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Oct 23, 2023 |
tribunemag.co.uk | Ronan Burtenshaw
As a young socialist, I remember reading a quotation attributed to Bertolt Brecht: ‘Because things are the way that they are, they will not stay the way that they are.’ I was intrigued; here, it seemed, was a promise that abject conditions would necessarily produce their own demise.
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