James Connolly, German warmonger (1)
German soldiers in WW1 Part of a series of articles on Connolly: workersliberty.org/connolly At first James Connolly responded to World War One in line with the international socialist movement’s Basle Manifesto of 1912, as we saw in the last instalments of our series on Connolly, in Solidarity 652 and 653 . From late August 1914 he shifted to a pro-German stance in line with the previous writings of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The war upon the German nation Now that the first drunkenness of the war fever is over, and the contending forces are locked in deadly combat upon the battlefield...