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On this day in 1916, in Ireland, there began a revolutionary nationalist uprising against British colonialism. The Easter uprising would be the first move in a heroic struggle against the British Empire and towards the ending of the oppression of Ireland.

On this day in 1916, in Ireland, there began a revolutionary nationalist uprising against British colonialism. The Easter uprising would be the first move in a heroic struggle against the British Empire and towards the ending of the oppression of Ireland.
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The trial is now taking place at Bolton Crown Court. We encourage all local activists to get over to support the Elbit 3 and raise our demand for an end to UK arms supplies to Israel.

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The trial is now taking place at Bolton Crown Court. We encourage all local activists to get over to support the Elbit 3 and raise our demand for an end to UK arms supplies to Israel. 

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While the KPO’s success reflects the real support that vigorous campaigning on bread and butter issues can garner from workers, it is necessary to make clear that this does not represent an endorsement of genuine communist politics.

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The police were able to break up and disperse the Congress. But they will neither silence us, nor will they achieve their goal of destroying our movement, which is growing and becoming stronger.
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Low wages and a high cost of living, worsened last year by surges in inflation and interest rates, mean that a minority AD government will be vulnerable from the outset.

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Unite’s General Secretary Sharon Graham has picked the middle of Israel’s genocidal war to denounce the solidarity movement and nail her colours to the mast of British militarism.

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Faced with either a horrific attack on Rafah or the spark of a regional war, the worldwide movement of solidarity with Gaza needs to go beyond protests.

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Women’s rights will never be secure until the system which births our inequality, capitalism, is overthrown.

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The far-right’s strategy of Hindutva dictatorship can be stopped by means of working class struggle, but this would pose the need to create a workers’ government based on the organs created in the struggle.

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The Legacy of James Connolly (full pamphlet):
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Fifty years of struggle against the Orange State:
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This struggle for a socialist Ireland continues to this day against the British occupation of 'Northern Ireland' and those who would compromise with imperialism.

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and indeed the insurrection was commanded by the communist James Connolly who wanted to achieve a workers' republic and a socialist Ireland.

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Although most of the leaders were bourgeois nationalists there were many communist militants from the Irish Citizens Army who fought in the battle

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Unfortunately the British state stopped at nothing to crush the movement and flooded the city with soldiers, vastly outnumbering the rebels. After days of brave resistance resulting in hundreds of deaths, the rebels were defeated and the leadership,

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including a wounded Connolly, were executed.

But this would not stop the demand for justice and independence and within years the upheaval had spread across Ireland and would soon force the empire to make major concessions which would inspire millions of people around the world.

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