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Mike Gonzales remembers Ernesto Cardenal, a priest and poet who participated in Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution and who died this year. I first met Ernesto Cardenal in Managua, where he was performing his poetry in a room full of local people – mothers breast-feeding their babies, off-duty policemen, local
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This year’s anniversary of James Connolly’s execution occurs amidst a triple crisis of capitalism: a global health pandemic, an economic depression and a climate emergency. Author of the James Connolly Reader, Shaun Harkin, argues Connolly’s political ideas and socialist vision have never been so relevant. Connolly joined
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Given their catastrophic failure to deal with the current pandemic, the British Government is especially keen to make the most of the 75th anniversary of VE Day – the day World War 2 ended. Eamonn McCann takes a look. Coronavirus or no coronavirus, Britain festooned itself with union flags to mark
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were not only active revolutionaries, they were philosophers, sociologists, & historians. For the Revolutionaries Reviewed series, Paul le Blanc discusses the founders of Marxism & the core concepts they developed. Some people make a big point about separating Karl Marx and Frederick Engels from each
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James Connolly lived in the US from 1903 to 1910. The image above is of Connolly addressing the May Day rally in Union Square, New York City in 1908. Here Rebel republishes an article by Connolly first printed in the May 1908 issue of The Harp, the newspaper of the
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While the pandemic has prevented us from marching for May Day, the virus has thrown a spotlight on the importance of workers to the world we live in. Gavin Campbell looks at the history of International Workers’ Day and argues it is more relevant than ever before. Ever since May
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To marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lenin we’re sharing the latest installment of Paul LeBlanc’s series Revolutionaries Reviewed, on Vladimir Lenin – a central leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which overthrew tsarist rule and attempted to bring about a new socialist society. Vladimir Ilyich
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In the first of a series of Revolutionaries Reviewed, Paul LeBlanc looks back at the life and politics of Rosa Luxemburg. Born in Poland in 1871, Rosa became a rabble rousing activist. Eventually, she ended up in Germany as one of the leading revolutionaries in the German Social Democratic Party,
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As we move through an Easter week like no other in living memory, Shaun Harkin analyses the importance of another Easter week in Ireland’s past, and the lessons it holds for today’s world. Easter 2020 will be etched into our collective psyche like no other in recent memory.
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Ireland in the early 20th century was a hotbed of revolutionary activity, and James Connolly was central to it. Historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh charts James Connolly’s unique political perspective and argues that he provides crucial lessons for the struggles of today. Referring to the veneration of Wolfe Tone by
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Focusing on the political influences of the time, and the impact these women had on the political movements they were part of, Mary Smith looks back at the women of Ireland’s Easter Rising, seeking to add to the long neglected ‘herstory’ of the period. Mollie O’Reilly was sent
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Let us free Ireland! Never mind such base, carnal thoughts as concern work and wages, healthy homes, or lives unclouded by poverty. Let us free Ireland! The rackrenting landlord; is he not also an Irishman, and wherefore should we hate him? Nay, let us not speak harshly of our brother