The "legacy" of James Connolly
Connolly has become “a vessel into which each man can pour his dream.”
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Connolly has become “a vessel into which each man can pour his dream.”
Archives of the publications of Workers' Liberty and its forerunners back to 1966-7
I met Tom Nairn, who has died at the age of 90, only once, when I was 17 or 18 and he came to speak at a meeting at my university. I remember wondering how someone even more shy, awkward, and dishevelled than I was could have become such a high-profile influence on the left. Nairn wrote not awkwardly but exuberantly, floridly, splendidly.
An account produced as background material for the 1972-3 discussion in Workers' Fight (forerunner of Workers' Liberty) on the Fourth International
Economic policy has taken something of a back seat in a French presidential campaign initially focused on cultural and identity issues, then overshadowed by the war in Ukraine. But as the country pre…