There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.
James ConnollyYes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
James ConnollyIf you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
James ConnollyThe cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour
James ConnollyState ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers, and the Hangmen, all would all be Socialist functionaries, as they are State officials - but the ownership by the State of all the land and materials for labour, combined with the co-operative control by the workers of such land and materials, would be Socialism.
James Connolly