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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.

— James Connolly Labour in Irish History (1919)

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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.

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

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