Theory and the battle of ideas

ruling clawss

The left and a famous cartoonist

The Ruling Clawss, by A. Redfield, was originally published by the Daily Worker (US) in 1935. It is now republished as The Ruling Clawss: The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff. Hoff was unknown to me. But after a career as a cartoonist for the New Yorker and Hearst publications from the 1930s he found fame in the USA as a children’s author and illustrator, with Danny and the Dinosaur (1958) selling more than ten million copies.

putin

Israel and Ukraine: both no right to exist?

People who want to see Putin prevail in Ukraine were overjoyed by the recent UCU congress vote against Ukraine having the arms it needs to defend itself.

Andrew Murray wrote in the Morning Star that “The University and College Union (UCU) vote to oppose the continuing war in Ukraine, including arms sales, and to support the campaigning of the Stop the War Coalition against British government policy over the war is a beacon to the rest of the movement”.

landlords

National and economic subjection in Irish history

This third instalment on “Connolly’s historiography” in our series Connolly, politically unexpurgated is chapter one of Connolly’s longest and most-worked-on piece of writing, Labour in Irish History. It argues that even the best middle-class Irish nationalist leaders offered no more than “such reforms as might remove irritating and unnecessary officialism, while leaving untouched the basis of national and economic subjection”.

northern ireland

What’s wrong with the Six Counties

There are two distinct peoples in Ireland, who see and define themselves differently and antagonistically, the Catholic “Irish-Irish” Nationalists and the Protestant “British-Irish” Unionists.

Ireland, which had been ruled by England since the 12th century, was partitioned in 1920-21 into Six and 26 Counties entities. The border dividing the Six and 26 Counties does not coincide, or even approximate to, the geographical location of the two distinct Irish peoples/ identities. It cuts right through them.

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