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“When questions of ‘class’ interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.”
― Labour in Irish History
― Labour in Irish History
“History, in general, treats the working class as the manipulator of politics treats the working man – that is to say, with contempt when he remained passive, and with derision, hatred and misrepresentation whenever he dares evince a desire to throw off the yoke of political or social servitude.”
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“James Connolly, 1916:
'The worker is the slave of capitalist society: the female worker is the slave of that slave.”
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'The worker is the slave of capitalist society: the female worker is the slave of that slave.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“Dynasties and thrones are not half so important as workshops, farms and factories. Rather we may say that dynasties and thrones, and even provisional governments, are good for anything exactly in proportion as they secure fair play, justice and freedom to those who labour.”
– John Mitchell, 1848”
― Labour in Irish History
– John Mitchell, 1848”
― Labour in Irish History
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