Ireland: Republicanism & Revolution

This book charts the generations of Irish men and women who have fought for national liberation from British imperialism under the banner of the Irish Republic. It also assesses the different ways the struggle for a united Ireland has been fought: with arms in hand, and along the constitutional road -- both of which have landed in dead ends. In studying this rich revolutionary heritage, one lesson shines through, bought at an enormous cost of life and suffering: only through the socialist revolution is the attainment of complete national liberation and reunification of Ireland possible. This book is being released at the time where the question is now posed before socialist Republicans: in a period of unprecedented capitalist crisis, when all the old contradictions are bursting violently to the surface – where next?