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 Edition Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh (ed.), James Connolly: The Lost Writings (London 1997). Selected further reading James Connolly and William Walker, The Connolly-Walker controversy on socialist unity in Ireland (Dublin 1911, repr. Cork 1986). Robert Lynd, James Connolly: an appreciation, to James Connolly, Collected works (2 vols, October 1916, repr. Dublin 1987) i, pp. 495–507. Lambert McKenna, The social teachings of James Connolly (Dublin 1920). Desmond Ryan, James Connolly: his life, work and writings (Dublin 1924). G. Schüller, James Connolly and Irish freedom: a marxist analysis (Chicago 1926, repr. Cork 1974). Noelle Davis, Connolly of Ireland: patriot and socialist (Carnarvon 1946). Richard Michael Fox, James Connolly: the forerunner (Tralee 1946). Desmond Ryan, Socialism and nationalism: a selection from the writings of James Connolly (Dublin 1948). Desmond Ryan, 'James Connolly', in J. W. Boyle (ed.), Leaders and workers (Cork 1960, repr. 1978). C. Desmond Greaves, The life and times of James Connolly (London 1961, repr. Berlin 1976). François Bédarida, Le socialisme et la nation: James Connolly et l'Irlande (Paris 1965). Joseph Deasy, James Connolly: his life and teachings (Dublin 1966). James Connolly, Press poisoners in Ireland and other articles (Belfast 1968). James Connolly, Yellow unions in Ireland and other articles (Belfast 1968). Peter McKevitt, James Connolly (Dublin 1969). Owen Dudley Edwards, The mind of an activist: James Connolly (Dublin 1981). Derry Kelleher, Quotations from James Connolly: an anthology in three parts (2 vols Drogheda 1972). Peter Berresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly: selected writings edited with an introduction by P. Berresford Ellis (Harmondsworth 1973). Samuel Levenson, James Connolly: a biography (London 1973). James Connolly, Ireland upon the dissecting table: James Connolly on Ulster and Partition (Cork 1975). Nora Connolly O'Brien, James Connolly: portrait of a rebel father (Dublin 1975). E. Strauss, Irish nationalism and British democracy (Westport CT 1975). Bernard Ransom, Connolly's Marxism (London 1980). Communist Party of Ireland, Breaking the chains: selected writings of James Connolly on women (Belfast 1981). Ruth Dudley Edwards, James Connolly (Dublin 1981). Brian Kelly, James Connolly and the fight for an Irish Workers' Republic (Cleveland, OH 1982). John F. Murphy, Implications of the Irish past: the socialist ideology of James Connolly from an historical perspective (unpubl. MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1983). Anthony Lake, James Connolly: the development of his political ideology (unpubl. MA thesis, NUI Cork 1984). Frederick Ryan, Socialism, democracy and the Church (Dublin 1984). With reviews of Connolly's 'Labour in Irish History' and Jaures' 'Studies in socialism'. Connolly: the Polish aspects: a review of James Connolly's political and spiritual affinity with Józef Pilsudski, leader of the Polish Socialist Party, organiser of the Polish legions and founder of the Polish state (Belfast 1985). X. T. Zagladina, James Connolly (Moscow 1985). James Connolly and Daniel De Leon, The Connolly-De Leon Controversy: On wages, marriage and the Church (London 1986). David Howell, A Lost Left: three studies in socialism and nationalism (Chicago 1986). Priscilla Metscher, Republicanism and socialism in Ireland: a study of the relationship of politics and ideology from the United Irishmen to James Connolly, Bremer Beiträge zur Literatur- und Ideologiegeschichte 2 (Frankfurt-am-Main 1986). Michael O'Riordan, General introduction, to James Connolly, Collected works (2 vols Dublin 1987) i, pp. ix–xvii. Cathal O'Shannon, Introduction, to James Connolly, Collected works (2 vols Dublin 1987) i, 11–16. Austen Morgan, James Connolly: a political biography (Manchester 1988). Helen Clark, Sing a rebel song: the story of James Connolly, born Edinburgh 1868, executed Dublin 1916 (Edinburgh 1989). Kieran Allen, The politics of James Connolly (London 1990). Andy Johnston, James Larraggy and Edward McWilliams, Connolly: a Marxist analysis (Dublin 1990). Lambert McKenna, The social teachings of James Connolly, by Lambert McKenna, ed. Thomas J. Morrissey (Dublin 1991). Donnacha Ní Gabhann, The reality of Connolly: 1868-1916 (Dublin 1993). William K. Anderson, James Connolly and the Irish left (Dublin 1994). Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, What Connolly said: James Connolly's writings (Dublin 1994). James L. Hyland, James Connolly: life and times (Dundalk 1997). William McMullen, With James Connolly in Belfast (Belfast 2001). Donal Nevin, James Connolly: a full life (Dublin 2005). James Connolly Coercion in England Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh James Connolly: The Lost Writings Pluto London 1997 172–173

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 by James Connolly 1915 The text is in English. 2010-04-16 Beatrix Färber ed. Conversion script run; header updated; new wordcount made; file parsed. 2008-08-29 Beatrix Färber ed. File validated. 2008-07-30 Ruth Murphy ed. Keywords added. 2006-01-25 Benjamin Hazard ed. File proofed (2), structural and content markup applied to text; header inserted and file parsed. 2005-12-01 Aisling Byrne, Dublin ed. File proofed (1). 2005-09-10 Benjamin Hazard data capture Text scanned. Coercion in England 28 August 1915

The news which came to hand as we went to press last week that the offices of the Labour Leader had been raided in London and Manchester is of a gravity that cannot be minimised. Press prosecutions, and even ruthless suppressions of the press we are familiar enough with in Ireland – so familiar that we appear to have lost even the capacity of resenting it, so familiar, indeed, are we with it that when the Irish Worker was suppressed there was not a Labour or Socialist journal in Great Britain protested against the act, or thought it important enough to devote a paragraph to deprecating it.

But press prosecutions, raids upon printing offices in Great Britain, especially raids upon printing offices controlled by a political party with hundreds of branches and widespread ramifications through the country, that is a fact of much more sinister significance than any suppression in Ireland. We have had before now governments which were openly tyrannical and oppressive in Ireland, but which were nevertheless on the general side of greater freedom in England; we have had governments which abolished the right of trial by jury in Ireland, and at the same time extended the suffrage in England. Just as it is said that there is seldom to be found a man wholly bad, a man who has not some good points; as no ruffian is wholly depraved, so there was seldom in modern times a British Government which did not cover its evil deeds in Ireland with a pretence at good deeds in England.

Therefore when we meet with the spectacle of a government which is brutally destructive of liberty – in Ireland, which muzzles one part of the press and corrupts the other — in Ireland, which abolishes the right of trial by jury — in Ireland, which denies the sanctity of the home and gives the right of search to every ignorant and insolent policeman – in Ireland, which destroys Free Speech, gives untrammelled licence to speakers of one political party and jails the spokesmen of another – in Ireland, when we meet with the spectacle of such a government actually daring to extend some of those 'blessings of British rule' to England, to its own dearly beloved 'God's Englishmen' we are stricken with wonder and feel that the foundations of the world are being swept away.

Either this government is mad, or else the panic cowardice of fear has set its grasp upon it, and it is reeling stupidly to its doom.