James Connolly: an anti-colonialist revolutionary

2025-07-25

James Connolly was a socialist whose role in the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin made him a key figure in Ireland’s national revolution. But he was also a major theorist, one of the few socialists of his day to link working class struggles with the fight for national liberation. Paddy Gibson discusses the importance of a new book about him, The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898, by Conor McCabe. Read more about Connolly. Find out more about Solidarity. This talk was delivered at a Solidarity meeting on 1 May 2025.

James Connolly was a socialist whose role in the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin made him a key figure in Ireland’s national revolution.

But he was also a major theorist, one of the few socialists of his day to link working class struggles with the fight for national liberation.

Paddy Gibson discusses the importance of a new book about him, The Lost and Early Writings of James Connolly, 1889-1898, by Conor McCabe.