Born in 1868 into a poor family in Edinburgh, James Connolly was a genuine proletarian. His working life commenced at the age of ten. All his life he lived and

Today marks the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin against British imperialist rule. The outstanding leader of that movement was James Connolly. We republish here an article by Ted Grant and Alan Woods from 2001, in which they show that Connolly – often portrayed simply as an Irish nationalist – was, first and foremost, a militant workers’ leader and a Marxist.

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