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The Life and Times of James Connolly
C Desmond Greaves
(Manifesto Press)
Earlier this year, while designing an exhibition for the TUC on relations between the British and US labour movements, I came across a 1908 photograph of James Connolly speaking at a May Day rally alongside local leaders of the revolutionary syndicalists of the Industrial Workers of the World and the Jewish Bund and other trade unionists and socialists.
Reproduced on the back cover it shows Connolly in a typical pose, authoritative and forthright in communicating advanced ideas to workers.
Wherever Connolly found himself during his often troubled search for work he emerged as a local leader. In Scotland, in Ireland and in the US his particular combination of socialist principles, working-class unity and patriotism was inevitably fused into a consistent anti-imperialism.
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