The Easter Rising was an insurrection, mostly in Dublin city, that lasted from April 24th until April 30th 1916.
The insurgents in Dublin amounted to 1,200 men and women from the nationalist militia the Irish Volunteers, the socialist trade union group Irish Citizen Army and the women’s group, Cumman na mBan.
The Irish Volunteers had been founded in 1913 in response to the blocking of Home Rule, or self government for Ireland by the Ulster Volunteers. The Citizen Army (with around 300 members) was formed during the Dublin Lockout of 1913 to protect strikers from the police. James Connolly afterwards directed it towards pursuit of an Irish socialist republic.
The Volunteers split after the outbreak of the First World War into the National Volunteers and the Irish Volunteers.
The National Volunteers, over 120,000 strong, led by Irish Parliamentary Party leader John Redmond, were pledged to support the British war effort and over 30,000 of them joined the British Army. The remaining 13,000 Irish Volunteers, led by Eoin MacNeill, were committed to keep their organisation intact and in Ireland until Home Rule was passed.
The Rising was planned in secret by seven men, mostly of the Irish Republican Brotherhood or IRB, who had formed a “Military Council” to this end just after the outbreak of the First World War. They were, Tom Clarke, Sean McDermott, Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Joseph Plunkett, James Connolly and Eamon Ceannt.
Their plans were not known to the membership of the Volunteers at large or to the leaders of the IRB and Volunteers, Dennis McCullough, Bulmer Hobson and Eoin MacNeill.
They had arranged with the Germans for a large importation of arms to be delivered on Good Friday, April 21st, but this shipment was discovered by the British off Kerry and its cargo lost.
At the last minute, the plans for the Rising were revealed to Eoin MacNeill who tried to call off the rebellion by issuing a “countermanding order”, but actually just postponed the outbreak from Easter Sunday to the next day, Monday.
The insurgents proclaimed an Irish Republic with Pearse as President and Connolly as commander in chief. They occupied positions around Dublin at the General Post Office (GPO), the Four Courts, the South Dublin Union, Boland’s Mill, Stephen’s Green and Jacobs’ biscuit factory.
Over the following week, the British deployed over 16,000 troops, artillery and naval gunboat into the city to suppress the rising. In the week’s fighting, about 450 people were killed and over 2,000 wounded.
The rebels’ headquarters at the GPO was bombarded into surrender, which Patrick Pearse ordered on Saturday, 29th April. However the fiercest fighting took place elsewhere, at Mount Street Bridge, South Dublin Union and North King Street.
There were also risings in county Galway, Enniscorthy in Wexford and Ashbourne in county Meath, but apart from an action at Ashbourne that killed 11 police, these caused little bloodshed.
Sixteen of the rebel leaders were executed, 15 in a two week period after they had surrendered and one, Roger Casement, in August.
Over 3,000 people were arrested after the rebellion and over 1,400 imprisoned. The Rising was not widely supported among the Dublin public and was condemned by the Irish Parliamentary Party and much of nationalist as well as unionist opinion. However, combined with other factors, such as the continued postponement of Home Rule, the growing casualties of the First World War and the threat of conscription, the Rising and its repression helped to increase the strength of the radical nationalists in Sinn Fein.
This party, which had not participated in the rebellion, was adopted as a vehicle by the veterans of the Rising and pledged to withdraw from the Westminster Parliament and set up an Irish one.
Sinn Fein went on to win three by-elections in 1917 and a general election in 1918, leading to their proclamation of an Irish Republic in January 1919 and the start of the Irish War of Independence.
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Anticommunist brainworms burrow deep.
I remember reading an explanation, I think here on the bear site, that western leftists have a fixation on underdogs/"losers" to the point that they can only support socialist projects that have already been crushed and it really does seem to check out.
That's kind of a weird fixation :| this sucks it's lame, as soon as I read the Manifesto all my brainworms were ejected. Everytime I remember something bad I heard about Russia or China, my brain auto-appends "according to NATO bootlicker fuckers, and there's a 50/50 chance the US or Britain or whatever western power did that instead". The marxist lady also told me Stalin did ethnic cleansing, which Idk...
This degree of self-crit, while commendable, is not nearly so common as we might wish.
I don't get how people can't
This western hellhole has almost never done anything good for me, the best it's done is basically not kill me for existing as queer person. Many AES countries are waaaaaay cooler; why would anyone have any amount of loyalty to or affection for a western nation?? Why listen to anything their sockpuppet guys say?? Hell, what right do we even have, living in western hellholes, to stand and judge AES countries anyway??
Libs, I fuckin swear...
Did you see the thing recently about the DSA libs going to Cuba, shit talking it to their hosts, then refusing to meet with the President of Cuba?
Fucking libs.
And meeting with weird anti Cuban dissidents? Fucking
shit
Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture (2020) by Jones Manoel
https://redsails.org/western-marxism-and-christianity/
Yes, thank you. This is exactly the piece I was thinking of. Worth a read, @ashinadash@hexbear.net
Shit does every single Redsails article go this fucking hard? This puts all the weird defeatist fetishism bullshit into such a fine focus. I am now firmer in my belief that any criticism of an AES nation which does not come from one should be heavily scrutinised, lest it be one of these clowns.
Fuck The Church.
Also tho
Fuck the church, fuck kkkristianity.
This article is from before Oct 7, before :hamas-triangle:, before :idf-destroyer:. It is worth noticing, however, that apart from us sickos here on the bear site, most of the western left has found more sympathy for the Palestinian cause in videos of Palestinian civilians being slaughtered by the IOF than in videos of Palestinians fighters successfully resisting the IOF.
The
videos are like the one part that isn't completely horrible though, wtf is wrong with westoids as a whole??? Somethin's fucky with em if they prefer to see those videos of war crimes than of the oppressed people attacking back at the colonial zionist entity.
It's not as simple as a preference. In kkkristianity, being persecuted is actively and literally a sign of righteousness. In the western right, this manifests in culturally hegemonic kkkristians inventing persecution in order to cast themselves as victims. In western leftists who have not sufficiently confronted their latent cultural kkkristianity, it manifests instead in sympathy for the visibly persecuted which is not in itself necessarily a bad thing except that it also includes a lack of solidarity for those not visibly persecuted.
I have a low understanding of why this is the case, but it explains the constant victim complex shit I guess. This shit is so fucking weird, again can we like burn churches or something? This had not occured to me before today & I hate it.
I have long said, and I maintain, that we need a cultural revolution against kkkristianity.