Catching Clouds by artist Olha Riaboshapka.
“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred, and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their deaths, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names, to a certain extent, for the ‘consolation’ of the oppressed classes, and with the object of duping the latter, while, at the same time, robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge, and vulgarizing it.”
-Lenin

On this day, 5 June 1868, Marxist industrial unionist, James Connolly was born in an Irish slum in Edinburgh to Irish immigrant parents. A staunch advocate of Irish independence, and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World union, Connolly was executed by British authorities following the unsuccessful Easter rising of 1916. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1138940962957719/?type=3







