Politics and Letters Cris Francach

Interview

Conversation with Liam McNulty about his book James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist, a critical biography of the great Irish socialist revolutionary, out from Merlin Press.



Tunes:



Frank Harte - James Connolly

Liam Weldon - James Connolly

Roxanna Nic Liam reads a excerpts from Tunnel of Toads, a novel I have written which is due to be published by Marrowbone Books in a few weeks.



Tunes:

Radie Peat - Cailín deas cruite na mBó / When I Was a Young Girl

Pinch & Shackleton - Cracks in the Pleasuredome

Burial & Four Tet - Moth

Mícheál Keating & Brendan McInerney - It's Still There

Further Reading

Broué, Pierre. The German Revolution 1917 - 1923. Haymarket Books, 2005.

Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015.

——, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960.

FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2008.

International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald, ‘Manifesto’. Marxists.org, 1915. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/zimmerwald/manifesto-1915.htm

Kołakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878 - 1928. Penguin, 2015.

Liedman, Sven-Eric. A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx. Verso, 2018.

Lenin, Vladimir. Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution. Marxists.org, 2008. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm#ep-s3

Luxemburg, Rosa, The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume I: Economic Writings 1. Verso, 2014.

——, The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume II: Economic Writings 2. Verso, 2016.

——. Reform or Revolution. Marxists.org, 1999. https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm

——, ‘The Revolution in Russia’. Marxists.org, 2000. https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1905/02/08.htm

Marx, Karl. Critique of the Gotha Programme.

Nettl, J.P. Rosa Luxemburg. Verso, 2019.

Rabinowitch, Alexander. Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising. Indiana University Press, 1991.

Salvadori, Massimo. Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution 1880- 1939. Verso, 1990.

Smith, S.A.. Russia in Revolution: Empire in Crisis 1890 - 1928. Oxford University Press, 2018.

The Social Democratic Party of Germany, The Erfurt Programme. Marxists.org, 1891. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm

Trotsky, Leon. 1905. Wellred Books, 2017.

——. History of the Russian Revolution. Penguin, 2017.

——, Trotsky on Lenin. WellRed Books, 2017.

Wilson, Edmund. To The Finland Station. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Interview with Sam Slote of Trinity College Dublin, co-author with Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses, available from Oxford University Press.

First part of a 6 / 7 part lecture series on the Russian Revolution going from the Enlightenment to the Paris Commune.



07:27: My bad explanation of Kant ends.

14:20: My bad explanation of Hegel ends.



I think I was sick of recording towards the end, you can hear it in my voice a bit.



Further Reading



Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso, 2018.

Engels, Friedrich. Anti-Dühring. Wellred Books, 2017.

——. The Origin of Private Property, Family and the State. Penguin, 2010.

Hibbert, Christopher. The French Revolution. Penguin, 1980.

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 - 1848. Abacus, 2010.

Kołakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Liedman, Sven-Eric. A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx. Verso, 2018.

Mandel, Ernest. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx 1843 to Capital. Verso, 2015.

Marx, Karl. Capital: Volume I. Penguin, 1990.

——. Capital: Volume II. Penguin, 1991.

——. Capital: Volume III. Penguin, 1992.

——. Civil War in France: The Paris Commune. International Publishers, 2008.

——. Class Struggles in France 1848 - 1850. International Publishers, 1997. 

Wilson, Edmund. To The Finland Station. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.