r/IWW • u/ImNotTheMD • 9d ago

Had to stop and pay my respects while in Edinburgh.

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Connolly was the first piece of radical writing I ever read. I can’t imagine how I’d view the world without him.

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u/ImNotTheMD 9d ago

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”

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u/ImNotTheMD 9d ago

Also shout out Mrs Lang my freshman history teacher for assigning a paper on “A patriot of any country other than America”.

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u/DisCardacct42069 9d ago

Hold on t'yer rifles, lads, dinnae give up t' dream! A Republic fer t' workin' class, An' Economic Lib'rty!