The Worker Is The Slave

The Irishman Frees Himself From Slavery When He Realizes The Truth That The Capitalist System Is The Most Foreign Thing In Ireland. The Irish Question Is A Social Question. The Whole Age-long Fight Of The Irish People Against Their Oppressors Resolves Itself In The Last Analysis Into A Fight For The Mastery Of The Means Of Life, The Sources Of Production, In Ireland. Who Would Own And Control The Land? The People, Or The Invaders; And If The Invaders, Which Set Of Them - The Most Recent Swarm Of Land Thieves, Or The Sons Of The Thieves Of A Former Generation?

Irish Tory Employers Hid[e] Their Sweatshops Behind Orange Flags, And Irish Home Rule Landlords Us[e] The Green Sunburst Of Erin To Cloak Their Rack-renting In The Festering Slums Of Our Irish Towns.

If You Remove The English Army To-morrow And Hoist The Green Flag Over Dublin Castle, Unless You Set About The Organisation Of The Socialist Republic Your Efforts Would Be In Vain.

Such A Scheme.. 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.

If You Strike At, Imprison, Or Kill Us, Out Of Our Prisons Or Graves We Will Still Evoke A Spirit That Will Thwart You, And Perhaps, Raise A Force That Will Destroy You! We Defy You! Do Your Worst!