I see that Mr. Aphorisms has done a great job of compiling sections of Connolly's works on another forum that show that Connolly opposed the replacement of native Irish workers with immigrant labour. Today, our trendy lefties have been bought by the Soros and Rothschild Oligarchs. The likes of Chuck Feeney will fund the Irish Left with millions of dollars so as to push an obscenity like so called "Gay Marriage" on the Irish people, and in return, the Irish Lefties campaign to help the Oligarchs get their cheap foreign labour to the detriment of the native Irish worker - 250,000 of whom have been pushed into exile in the last ten years, while our country is being flooded with immigrants.

Well, it's good to remind ourselves that genuine Socialism is against immigrant cheap labour. Both Larkin and Connolly campaigned against it. Marx and Engels wrote against it, and not one Socialist state ever had open borders. Indeed, there were internal passports in the USSR. People couldn't just move to wherever they liked even within the USSR.

Anyway, let's enjoy these words of wisdom from a real Socialist. The first quote is particularly relevant to today's shameful situation, as it describes a "new plantation" where the best of the Irish race are being forced into foreign exile while their places are taken by immigrants. The second could also be describing today's situation, where traitors and cowards, young men of military age, are running from their duty in Syria and setting themselves up in Europe as "refugees," ready to take the places of native workers.

Here in Ireland we have another kind of dilution of labour. Everywhere since the conscription act was first mooted there has been a rush of Englishmen and Scotsmen to Ireland to escape the military net. These Englishmen and Scotsmen – let us call them Brit-Huns for short – are appearing as if by magic in every sort of job hitherto held by Irishmen. There is not a week and scarcely a day, that goes by without some unfortunate Irishmen being told by his employer that the firm is going to reduce its staff, and that his services are therefore no longer required. He goes, and in a day or two a Brit-Hun appears in his place ... all up and down the city the loyal capitalists are weeding out Irishmen and slyly substituting English and Scots – Brit-Huns – in their places. The Irish are wanted to fight the battles of the tottering British Empire – to set the ‘glorious example’ of dying for the Empire that denies their country the merest shadow of national freedom – and as the Irish will not go willingly they must be starved into going ... It is a new plantation, this time with the blessing and connivance of the Parliamentary leaders of the Irish race at home and abroad. And as the Brit-Huns come in the Irish boys march out in khaki, puzzled, misled, betrayed, the wonder of the world for stupidity, and the despair of their country ... It is the product of crime and folly – of British crime and Irish folly.

Simultaneously with this invasion by British shirkers we have witnessed a concerted and sustained effort on the part of the Labour Exchanges, and also on the part of firms in England under Government control, to entice able-bodied Irishmen out of Ireland to work in England.



.....the duty of English workers is to stay at home and fight conscription, not to run away from that fight. We here in Ireland have been exempted from conscription for the present because, and only because, the best fighting material in the country have got arms in their hands and would have resisted conscription to the last drop of their blood. We have always admitted that we cannot remain at peace if the British Government wants us to fight.



There are in England and Scotland thousands of young men eligible for military service who have banded themselves together to resist conscription. All honour to them! These men are upholding the sanctity of the individual soul against the tyranny of empires. As rebels ourselves we cannot refuse them our admiration. But what shall we say of the thousands of young, able-bodied English, Scots, and Welsh, now settling down upon Ireland – recreants, runaways, traitors to both sides, who will neither fight under conscription, nor fight against it! Loyalists to a man, jingoes and ‘Rule Britannia’ shouters every last one of them, they form the bulk of the audience at all West British functions, and spore the colours of the British Army on their persons as they parade our streets. But they are here to take our jobs, to take the bread out of the mouths of Irishmen whilst using those same Irishmen to go and fight for the Empire.

For example: Our critic says the people whom he is defending “Don’t sing Rule Britannia, don’t sport the loyal colours”. But the people whom we were attacking do sport the loyal colours, and do sing Rule Britannia, and do shout for the war, and are blatant jingoes to a man; they are not Irish refugees returning to the land of their birth, or the land of their fathers. Oh, no, they are boys of the bull-dog breed, publicly and privately asserting that Irishmen should go out to fight for the Empire they will not shed their own blood to defend.