The 27th Annual James Connolly Commemoration – Video
The 2013 James Connolly Commemoration held on June 8th at Connolly’s birthplace in Edinburgh. Organised by The James Connolly Society Scotland and the 1916 Societies.
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Happy Birthday James Connolly
Happy Birthday James Connolly. There can be no better day to launch our Let Us Rise Social History Project than on Connolly’s birthday. Our social history project, Let Us Rise, aims to raise awareness and advance understanding of the history of Edinburgh’s Little Ireland and the place of the James Connolly Society within that community.… Continue reading Happy Birthday James Connolly
Connolly Cycle Challenge 2013- Photos
Some images from the Connolly Cycle Challenge 2013. Well done to everyone who participated in the cycle on the wettest day of the year! Thank you to all the support workers and everyone who sponsored the cyclists. The Connolly Cycle Challenge is just one of the commemorative events the James Connolly Society Scotland and the… Continue reading Connolly Cycle Challenge 2013- Photos
JCS On Anti-Bedroom Tax March
On Saturday 30th March about 2000 people marched through Edinburgh in opposition to the Bedroom Tax. As always the James Connolly Society were there. Ensuring the socialist republican politics of James Connolly are central to political life in Scotland and that Connolly is commemorated everyday through the JCS’ involvement in working class politics. … Continue reading JCS On Anti-Bedroom Tax March
Join The JCS for 2013
Happy New year to all James Connolly Society members and supporters. The JCS would like to take this opportunity to thank our activists for all their hard work over the past year. We also appreciate the spirit of comradeship shown during the various strategy discussions which took place over the past year and our recent… Continue reading Join The JCS for 2013
Ireland And The Broader Implications Of Scotlands 2014 Referendum
By Jim Slaven The deal between Alex Salmond and David Cameron on the arrangements for the 2014 constitutional referendum has been widely welcomed. Most commentators have focussed on process issues such as timing, number of questions or votes for sixteen and seventeen year olds but there was also a substantial political battle being waged in the… Continue reading Ireland And The Broader Implications Of Scotlands 2014 Referendum
The Footsteps Of The Young James Connolly
Here it is a piece of social history, the best song ever written and the James Connolly Society’s anthem The Footsteps Of The Young James Connolly. This song was written by Gerry Mulvenna during his time living in Edinburgh as a student in the late eighties. Edinburgh based folk duo Patsy Mack, Bobby Nicholson and… Continue reading The Footsteps Of The Young James Connolly
Party Politicians: Noble, Ignoble and Local
The Czar is dead and the elections are over. The new Czar has issued a manifesto, and Bailie M’Donald is now Lord Provost. The peace of Europe is still maintained, the Nihilists are plotting in silence, and Councillor Waterston has been and gone and done it. A Tory Lord Provost rules over Liberal Edinburgh, and… Continue reading Party Politicians: Noble, Ignoble and Local
About The JCS
The James Connolly Society is a socialist republican organisation based in Edinburgh. The JCS exists to a) promote the life and works of James Connolly in the city of his birth. b) work with others for the establishment of the socialist republic envisaged by Connolly. c) to promote an authentic history of the James Connolly… Continue reading About The JCS
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