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

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.

[partition of Ireland], ... the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left…