Seán O’Casey, regarded as the first proletarian dramatist writing in English, made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of all working people.
In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda describes his escape from the Chilean government of President Videla across the Andes to Argentina: On either side of the trail I could observe in the wild desolation something which betrayed human activity.
The Dublin lockout of 1913 was one of the greatest industrial disputes in Irish history. The conflict between some 20,000 workers and 300 employers lasted from Aug. 26,1913, to January 18, 1914. Its core demand was the right to organize. Dublin’s tenements were among the most squalid in Europe.
Richard Fidler Russia’s massive invasion of Ukraine, the prompt mobilization of resistance by Ukrainians, and the quick shift toward public support for NATO in much of Europe, confronted the international Left and progressive forces with some major challenges. The Left in Canada was no exception.