James Connolly
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"James Connolly" was an Irish republicanism/Irish republican and socialist leader, aligned to syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. He also took a role in Scottish politics/Scottish and United States/American politics. He was executed by a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland/British firing squad because of his leadership role in the Easter Rising of 1916.

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Head of Christian civilization.

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

What we have now is a university town grafted onto a declining industrial city. The standard of living here is not going to be as great.

Nasdaq is voting with their capital.

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

I feel terrible. I'd like to get out. I'm done with the army. I want to move on. My commitment was up last December but they extended the whole division until January 31, 2007.

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.