Jolly Red Giant
11th July 2013, 18:47
2013 is the centenary of the 1913 Lockout in Dublin and much commentary has been made about the events over the past few months. As a contribution to the debate about the importance and legacy of the 1913 Lockout a new book on the 1913 Lockout will be launched at 6:30pm on Monday at Gutter Bookshop, Cows Lane, Temple Bar. Local launches of the book will occur at locations around the country over the following week. The book is being published by the Socialist Party and will be available nationwide.
Included in the book are chapters on
1. The Gathering Storm - the period leading up to the Lockout
2. Class War in Dublin - dealing with the history of the Lockout
3. No More the Slaves of Slaves - addressing the role of women during the Lockout
4. Solidarity Across the Irish Sea - International solidarity with the striking workers
5. More than a Taste of Power - The impact of the lockout and the development of the class struggle in Ireland 1917-1922
6. A response by Joe Higgins TD to the a speech by SIPTU's Jack O'Connor at Jim Larkin's graveside earlier this year where, without a hint of shame, he claimed that Larkin would have supported the current strategy of trade union leaders like himself.
1913 represented a fundemental change in the history of Ireland. Lenin described the Lockout in the following terms -
Well, this Irish nationalist bourgeoisie is celebrating its national victory, its maturity in affairs of state by declaring a war to the death on the Irish labour movement. Murphy has declared, on behalf of all the Irish capitalists, of course, that he is ready to spend three-quarters of a million pounds...to destroy the Irish trade unions.
And these unions have begun to develop magnificently. The Irish proletariat, awakening to class-consciousness, is pressing the Irish bourgeois scoundrels engaged in celebrating their national victory...A new spirit bas been aroused in the Irish workers unions. The unskilled workers have brought unparralleled animation into the trade unions. Even the women have begun to organisea thing hitherto unknown in Catholic Ireland... The country that used to be typified by the fat, well-fed Catholic priest and the poor, starving, ragged worker who wore his rags even on Sunday because he could riot afford Sunday clothes, that country, though it bears a double and triple national yoke, has begun to turn into a country with an organised army of the proletariat.
http://socialistparty.net/images/stories/sample%20cover2.jpg
Commenting on the imminent launch of Let us Rise! Joe Higgins TD said:
This book commemorates the immortal 1913 Dublin Lockout. This struggle, with brilliant leaders like Jim Larkin and James Connolly, heralded the emergence of the working class as the key social and political force. It ushered in a decade of struggle which could have changed the course of Irish history.
This period is rich in lessons for working class people today. The struggle waged in 1913 is a beacon that can shine a bright light on the way forward, if its lessons are fully absorbed.
http://socialistparty.net/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1239-new-book-entitled-qlet-us-riseq-on-the-1913-dublin-lockout
Included in the book are chapters on
1. The Gathering Storm - the period leading up to the Lockout
2. Class War in Dublin - dealing with the history of the Lockout
3. No More the Slaves of Slaves - addressing the role of women during the Lockout
4. Solidarity Across the Irish Sea - International solidarity with the striking workers
5. More than a Taste of Power - The impact of the lockout and the development of the class struggle in Ireland 1917-1922
6. A response by Joe Higgins TD to the a speech by SIPTU's Jack O'Connor at Jim Larkin's graveside earlier this year where, without a hint of shame, he claimed that Larkin would have supported the current strategy of trade union leaders like himself.
1913 represented a fundemental change in the history of Ireland. Lenin described the Lockout in the following terms -
Well, this Irish nationalist bourgeoisie is celebrating its national victory, its maturity in affairs of state by declaring a war to the death on the Irish labour movement. Murphy has declared, on behalf of all the Irish capitalists, of course, that he is ready to spend three-quarters of a million pounds...to destroy the Irish trade unions.
And these unions have begun to develop magnificently. The Irish proletariat, awakening to class-consciousness, is pressing the Irish bourgeois scoundrels engaged in celebrating their national victory...A new spirit bas been aroused in the Irish workers unions. The unskilled workers have brought unparralleled animation into the trade unions. Even the women have begun to organisea thing hitherto unknown in Catholic Ireland... The country that used to be typified by the fat, well-fed Catholic priest and the poor, starving, ragged worker who wore his rags even on Sunday because he could riot afford Sunday clothes, that country, though it bears a double and triple national yoke, has begun to turn into a country with an organised army of the proletariat.
http://socialistparty.net/images/stories/sample%20cover2.jpg
Commenting on the imminent launch of Let us Rise! Joe Higgins TD said:
This book commemorates the immortal 1913 Dublin Lockout. This struggle, with brilliant leaders like Jim Larkin and James Connolly, heralded the emergence of the working class as the key social and political force. It ushered in a decade of struggle which could have changed the course of Irish history.
This period is rich in lessons for working class people today. The struggle waged in 1913 is a beacon that can shine a bright light on the way forward, if its lessons are fully absorbed.
http://socialistparty.net/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1239-new-book-entitled-qlet-us-riseq-on-the-1913-dublin-lockout