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The Pursuit qfthe Workers’Republic since 1916 Communism inModernIrelanddescribesthe activityandthefateofavariety oforganisations in Irelandwhichregardedthemselvesasheirs totheviewsofJamesConnolly,thesocialistleader executedforhispartintheEasterrisingof1916. Thebooktracestheoriginsanddevelopments oftheIrishcommunistmovementandthe attemptsbyvariousgroups,NorthandSouth, toestablishaviablecommunistpartyinIreland andtoinfluenceleft-wingparties,therepublican movement,thetradeunionsandinmorerecent timesthecivilrightsmovementinNorthernIreland. MikeMilottehighlightsthefrequentlyviolent oppositionwhichcommunistsencounteredfrom withintheworkingclass, andfromclerical, right-wingandstateforces, andthedegreeto whichanti-communistsentimentandactivity affectedthemovement’sdevelopment. Itshows howtherelationshipbetweenIrishand internationalcommunismwasstructured andexaminesthedegreetowhichtheIrish communistmovementretainedtherevolutionary traditionsitembracedon itsinception. ThehistoryofIrishMarxismisacolourfulone, involvingseriousandcommittedindividualswho werepreparedtosacrificemuchfortheirbeliefs. Inrecallingtheirexperience,thebookfillsagap inthestudyofIrishlabourhistory, andrescues theIrishleftfromanobscurityitdoesnotdeserve. Fornoteon authorsee backflap. BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 https://archive.org/details/communisminmoderOOmilo COMMUNISM IN MODERN IRELAND To Rachel and Saoirse Mike Milotte COMMUNISM IN MODERN IRELAND The Pursuit of the Workers’Republic since 1916 Gill and Macmillan Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc. PublishedinIrelandby GillandMacmillanLtd Goldenbridge Dublin 8 withassociatedcompaniesin Auckland,Dallas,Delhi,HongKong, Johannesburg,Lagos,London,Manzini, Melbourne,Nairobi,NewYork,Singapore, Tokyo,Washington ©MikeMilotte, 1984 0 7171 0946 1 FirstpublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 1984by HolmesandMeierPublishers,Inc. 30IrvingPlace,NewYork,N.Y. 10003 ISBN0-8419-0970-9 LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Milotte,Mike CommunisminModemIreland. Bibliography: p. 302 Includesindex. 1.Communism—Ireland—History — 20thcentury. 2.Communism—NorthernIreland —History —20thcentury. I.Title. HX250.3.A6M54 1984 335.43’09415 84-629 ISBN 0-8419-0970-9 PrintoriginationinIrelandby PrintPrepLtd,Dublin PrintedinHongKong Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthispublicationmaybecopied, reproducedortransmittedinany formorby anymeans,withoutpermissionofthepublishers. Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 1 The Heritage ofJames Connolly Connolly, Syndicalism and the Easter Rising 9 Labourafter the Rising 24 Class Struggle andNational Struggle 29 2 From Socialist Party to Communist Party The SocialistParty and the Internationals 36 The SPI at the Second and Third Comintern Congresses 41 The Launching ofthe CommunistParty 46 3 The CommunistParty,Nationalismand Syndicalism From Truce to Civil War 49 The CommunistParty in the Civil War 59 The Turn to the Class 63 4 James Larkin and Irish Communism The Irish Worker League 70 The Workers'Party ofIreland 83 Left Turn 93 5 Revolutionary Workers’ Groups, Ultra-Leftism and the Crisis ClassAgainst Class 96 Suppression 106 Castlecomerand Catholic Reaction 114 6 Communist Struggles in Belfast: For Bread and Freedom Communism ComesNorth 122 Unemployed Struggles andAnti-Imperialism 128 TheNationalRailway Strike 138 7 The Second Communist Party: Fascism and the Republican Congress Communism andIrish Fascism 141 The Republican Congress 150 8 The Unpopular Popular Front The Transition to the Popular Front 158 The Spanish Civil War 169 Political Capitulation 175 9 Communism in the Second World War ‘Just’ War or \Imperialist’ War? 182 Liquidation Class Struggle and Twenty-six- , County Neutrality 191 Patriotism, Class Collaboration andPartition 200 10 Cold War Communism Communism Partitioned 216 Irish Communism after Stalin 224 The National Question in a Period ofTransition 229 11 Ireland’s Dual Carriageway to Socialism ... or Nowhere Opportunism and the Searchfor Respectability 239 Reforming the Six-County State 251 The Communists and the Northern Explosion 267 Epilogue: 1970-1980 281 Bibliography 302 Index 313
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