RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Anti Imperialist Action is a Socialist Republican Mass Organisation. As an introduction to our ideology we have put together the following reading list as an introduction to Irish Socialist Republicanism
Introduction to Republicanism
1. Declaration of the United Irishmen
https://www.marxists.org/history/england/britdem/events/irishmen.htm
2. The 1867 Fenian Proclamation- IRB https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2020/04/16/the-fenian-proclamation-1867/
3. Manifesto of the Irish Socialist Republican Party- James Connolly
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1896/xx/isrp.htm
4. For the Citizen Army (1915)- James Connolly
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1915/10/forca.htm
5. The 1916 Proclamation- The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2020/04/16/proclamation-of-the-irish-republic-1916/
6. The Democratic Programme- An Chéad Dáil Éireann https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2020/04/16/the-democratic-programme-of-an-chead-dail-eireann-1919/
7. Liam Mellows Socialist Programme https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2020/04/16/liam-mellows-socialist-programme/
8. Social Programme of the Irish Republican Army, 1933. https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2020/04/16/social-programme-of-the-irish-republican-army-1933/
9. Oration at Bodenstown (1966) – Seamus Costello https://socialistrepublicanmedia.home.blog/2019/10/03/oration-at-bodenstown-seamus-costello-1966/
10. Onwards to the Revolutionary Movement- Sean Doyle (2019)
https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2020/04/16/onwards-to-the-revolutionary-movement-sean-doyle-2019/
Introduction to Socialism
1. Let us Free Ireland- James Connolly
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1899/xx/freeirld.htm
2. Wolfe Tones Ideas of Democracy- Markievicz
https://www.marxists.org/archive/markievicz/1925/06/wolfetone.html
3. Socialism and Nationalism- James Connolly
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1897/01/socnat.htm
4. Workshop Talks- James Connolly
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1909/talks/shoptlks.htm
5. Nationalism and Socialism- Sinn Féin (1980)
https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/politics/docs/sf/lecture/sf-lecture3.htm
6. The Path that led me to LENINISM- Ho Chi Minh
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm
7. Point 10- The Discussion on Self Determination Summed Up- Lenin https://anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com/blog/2020/04/16/point-10-from-the-discussion-on-self-determination-summed-up-lenin-july-1916/
8. Be Concerned with the Well Being of The Masses, Pay attention to Methods of Work- Mao
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_10.htm
9. Combat Liberalism-Mao
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm
10. Long Live Marxism-Leninism- Maoism – Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
http://www.bannedthought.net/International/RIM/AWTW/1995-20/ll_mlm_20_eng.htm
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