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Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.

— James Connolly

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Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

Our demands most moderate are: we only want the earth.

Be Moderate (1907)

The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour.

When questions of “class” interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.

Labour in Irish History (1919)

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