A Civil War by Claudio Pavone

A Civil War by Claudio Pavone

Author:Claudio Pavone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2013-11-19T05:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 6

The Class War

1. CLASS, NATION, ANTI-FASCISM

In April 1916, James Connolly, on the eve of the desperate attempted insurrection against the English that would lead him to the gallows, wrote:

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.1



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