At 9.40 am on Tuesday 26 August 1913 Dublin tram car men (drivers) and conductors pinned the Red Hand badge of the Irish Transport and General Workers‚ Union to their lapels and abandoned their vehicles. Within forty minutes most of the trams were moving again. The Dublin United Tramway Company chairman William Martin Murphy had contingency plans in place to use inspectors and office staff (many of them former car men) to replace the strikers. Trams would still not venture out at night, for fear of stoning, and crews would often carry revolvers for protection, but within a few days daytime services would operate relatively normally.
The dramatic opening of the 1913 dispute was a demonstration of weakness rather than strength. Normally tram strikes begin at daybreak with mass pickets to prevent vehicles leaving the depots. But on 26 August 1913, ITGWU leader Jim Larkin knew he could rely on less than 200 of the 800 DUTC employees. Another 200 Transport Union members had already been sacked by the company and the rest of the workforce frightened into submission. What followed was unbridled class war, only mediated by a distant British government distracted by domestic problems and the home rule crisis.
After outbreaks of violence between striking workers and strike-breakers occurred, James Connolly, Larkin and ex-British Army Captain Jack White formed a worker’s militia, the Irish Citizen Army, to protect workers’ demonstrations.
The lock-out concluded in early 1914, when the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Britain rejected Larkin and Connolly’s request for a sympathetic strike. Most workers, many of whom were on the brink of starvation, went back to work and signed pledges not to join the ITGWU, which was further weakened when Larkin fled to the United States and James Connolly was executed following the 1916 Easter Rising.
In retrospect the lockout represents the coming of age of the Irish trade union movement. Perversely, the aid from Britain and the well meaning but ineffectual interventions of the TUC in the dispute made the younger generation of Irish trade union leaders all the more determined to assert their independence. During the lockout people ranging from female suffrage campaigners to Catholic curates began to question in fundamental ways what sort of society home rule Ireland would be. Issues as relevant today as then, such as children’s rights and the effects of the internationalisation of capital (globalisation) were hotly debated. The lockout was the first major urban conflict to impinge itself on the national consciousness. Ironically the next great urban event was the Easter Rising and the lockout was relegated to the role of curtain raiser to the national struggle.
The Dublin 1913 Lockout - History of Ireland
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Not enough landlords are executed these days
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Guess all the hexbears went out and socialized and touched grass 🙄 that’s fine
If you love something, let it go.
If you want it to come back, start a struggle session.
Kinda, but not really
mfw I’m trying to keep my radical opinions quiet while reconnecting with old friends and one of them starts telling us about this horseshoe theory thing
insist you’re part of the communist center. Reject the left AND right opposition.
“Horseshoe theory is just Double genocide theory in disguise. Its Nazi apologia and anyone who says otherwise is a nazi enabler.”
Haha you can’t say “double genocide theory” to regular people lol but don’t worry comrade I spoke up
To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear counter-revolutionary remarks without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type [of liberalism]
Tried figuring out how to spoiler something and ppb’d myself lmao
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve ppb’d myself trying to read the mod log lol
putting ppb right next to the modlog is honestly the funniest bit
The biography I’m reading just described Mao as “guerrilla commander cum leader” which is pretty cool.
growing suspicion people who say that just do it to say cum, ‘cum’ is not any more conveinient or divergent in meaning from any other possible option for that meaning
Sure but you get to write cum in an academic context.
:butthead: heheheheh
Academics love puns.
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It’s purely for educated people with childish senses of humor cause all it is is Latin for “with” (although in English it also means a more formal version of “plus” - guerilla commander plus leader). It makes sense in idiomatic phrases with Latin in it like “graduated summa cum laude” or whatever but just taking it on is the author having fun making you read cum
:beavis: hehheheheeheh
Using big words or words with ultra-precise meanings is fun. Like it’s a fun game where you’re trying to find not just a good word, but the perfect word. English is such a vast, unwieldy language you can squeeze in silly puns and references, play with alliteration, make up bizzare metaphors. I’d compare it to, like, trying out new chords and songs with a guitar, or whittling, or something. If you spend enough time reading and enough time writing you’ll develop some skill at vocabulary and writing, so then word games and clever language are a way to play with your skill.
Hey what’s the quote that goes like “the primary unit of propaganda is not lies, but emphasis”
another way to think about it is that no matter how much evidence and even-handedness you have, the choice of what to talk about is itself a political act
A similar one from Inventing Reality
The media may not always be able to tell us what to think, but they are strikingly successful in telling us what to think about.
Oh that’s good. What a guy huh
I don’t know when
made first mention of it, but the source I have is:
As we say on the show over and over again the atomic unit of propaganda is not lies, it’s emphasis.
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The store had none of those big lemon cookies they had last week, they were so good
Those squishy ones? Can’t get enough of them.
Posting at a concert instead of listening to the band to assert superiority
Centrists/libertarians are painfully deluded. Actual conversation I heard last night
“Why would you go to college for a useless degree when you can just learn a trade and make bank? I know a guy who is a plumber and retired at 56. Now his son is just going to takeover the business.”
Such a fucking self-own it’s miraculous. But of course, the other people thought he was making a good point
When I forget to just have a family business to inherit
Don’t worry, all you have to do is start a successful business in 2023! No time like the present and anyone who says otherwise doesn’t work hard enough
“Racially motivated shooting” is always cryptic for “fash unloads on historically black area”
So fucking tired of white supremacist media
hot water isn’t working, gas isn’t working, I called the emergency maintenance line and this lady is like “yeah it says here it’s gonna be off until Monday” what the fuck
“luxury” apartment living m i rite
“Luxury” just means your sqft to rent payment ratio is not in your favor.
600sqft, 2300/mo, amenities like a crappy gym with 1.5 treadmills.
Yeah the “luxury” apartments are made as cheaply as possible with some “amenities” thrown in to make it look premium on paper. In practice they decay rapidly dueto cheapmaterials and shoddy worksmanship.
Finished AC Odyssey and now every time I go into my steam library I just stare at it and then go on YouTube.
Everyone’s favorite game: is this post-big-game fatigue or depression? Maybe both???
I played through both a while ago. AC Origins and Odyssey. I know they are not for everyone but I got some fun out of them…mind you I did “mostly” beeline the mainstory. Doing everything in a game like Odyssey seems a bit much. Doubt I will get to start Valhalla before next year.
Yeah Odyssey could easily have 75% of its non story content cut and be much better for it. Origins less so, the world felt a bit more right-size for me
I don’t think i could stomach the bloat in Valhalla, everything I’ve seen says it’s much worse than Odyssey. Cautiously excited for Mirage tho
Well Mirage should be a much smaller scope more classical AC. Which makes it kinda exciting to me as well.
valhalla was awful. even the parts where you play as a literal god were incredibly boring and drawn out
I usually have a go to non-plot game to hold me over between plot based games. Usually civ vi or transport fever lol
yooo same just finished it what am i supposed to do now. i hated how abrupt the ending was smh.
sup nerds its been a while. this site looks like it’s gotten even better
Going to my country’s communist party’s headquarters tomorrow. I’ve selected my drabbest clothing and prepared my blandest lunch. Completely prepared