People of the Revolution and the USSR

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Any United Kingdom state institutionsstate 27 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 8 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 7 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 5 Australian Labor Party (ALP) 1 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 1 Socialist Party of America 1

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United Kingdom state institutionsstate 27 Labour Party (United Kingdom) 8 Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 7 Conservative Party (United Kingdom) 5

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James Connolly

James Connolly
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Non-Bolshevik socialists United Kingdom Ireland 1868–1916 ✕ Executed

He raised the workers' flag and the republic's on a single staff

Too wounded to stand, he was shot tied to a chair — Kilmainham Gaol, 12 May 1916

A socialist revolutionary who fused Marxism with Irish national liberation. He founded the Irish Citizen Army, commanded the Dublin Brigade in the 1916 Easter Rising, and was executed by the British after its suppression.

Career timeline
  • 1896Founds the Irish Socialist Republican Party
  • 1903–1910IWW organizer in America
  • 1910–1914Leads the ITGWU through the 1913 Dublin Lockout
  • 1910Published Labour in Irish History
  • 1913Founds the Irish Citizen Army
  • 1915Published The Re-Conquest of Ireland
  • 1916.04Easter Rising — Dublin commandant, signatory of the Proclamation
  • 1916.05Shot at Kilmainham Gaol