tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post4745465925954676996..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: Early 20th Century Socialists ➖ William WalkerAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-33024122151929444282021-06-25T21:30:01.425+01:002021-06-25T21:30:01.425+01:00Get your point Anthony, and the fact Connolly advo...Get your point Anthony, and the fact Connolly advocated these pokicies before most others suggests the question is not "hypothetical". If you are saying we will never know because, alas, he did not survive is a fair point. Connolly was prepared, had the Easter Rising been a success to fight for socialism using the ICA - hence the "in the event of victory speech to the ICA prior to Caoimhin O'Murailehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13014116388545562992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-1259892494192833482021-06-25T19:03:54.087+01:002021-06-25T19:03:54.087+01:00He had these policies for sure. I am still not sur...He had these policies for sure. I am still not sure in what way that addresses the initial question. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-55168385111437885862021-06-25T18:57:32.229+01:002021-06-25T18:57:32.229+01:00AM
The politics, socialist politics of James Conn...AM<br /><br />The politics, socialist politics of James Connolly were geared towards fully funded public services. Read the policies laid down of the ISRP which addresses funding of public services such as education, health and pensions. On pensions he was ahead of Lloyd George and on health far predated the Beverage report, which Atlee and Bevan based the NHS. <br />Caoimhin O'Murailehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13014116388545562992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-43697581175405180062021-06-25T16:49:33.723+01:002021-06-25T16:49:33.723+01:00Caoimhin - that is a lot of responsibility to plac...Caoimhin - that is a lot of responsibility to place on one man's shoulders. It also veers too much towards the great men of history theory of dynamics rather than impersonal and structural forces. We simp,y do not know what would have happened had Connolly survived no more than we know what way Bobby Sands or Michael Devine would have oriented in regards to Northern politics today. And - a AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-24375308917289926612021-06-25T14:29:29.416+01:002021-06-25T14:29:29.416+01:00AM
Had Connolly survived Ireland would have had a ...AM<br />Had Connolly survived Ireland would have had a nationalised health service long before the Atlee Government introduced one in the UK in 1948. Had Connolly survived, and the ICA grown, the Irish revolution would have been just begining. "We are out for economic as well as political freedom".Caoimhin O'Murailehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13014116388545562992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-52488328869427192772021-06-25T14:24:34.227+01:002021-06-25T14:24:34.227+01:00I'd call over seven thousand people expelled, ...I'd call over seven thousand people expelled, by force which only suited management, a variant of ethnic cleansing. As pointed out Protestant shop stewards, genuine ones who defended the working class irrespective of religious persuation were also forced out. This must have been like a pain killer for managements headache, the union reps outed by some of their own biggoted, ignorant members. Caoimhin O'Murailehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13014116388545562992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-46799321852619167082021-06-25T05:43:56.717+01:002021-06-25T05:43:56.717+01:00Hardly much of an ethnic clear out in H&W when...Hardly much of an ethnic clear out in H&W when Martin Meehan was working there as a boy.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-62140720918331436342021-06-24T22:48:49.422+01:002021-06-24T22:48:49.422+01:00Another fine piece of work Caoimhin. Walker was al...Another fine piece of work Caoimhin. Walker was always a hate figure for republican prisoners influenced by Connolly - Walker and the priest, Kane.<br />If things were reduced to a binary choice what would it be? UK rule with a state of the art NHS or a United Ireland with a third rate health system? Part of an Irish theocracy ridden by priestcraft or part of a secular UK? It does not reflect AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.com