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From Labor Action, Vol. 13 No. 19, 9 May 1949, p. 4.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Comrades and sympathizers active in the Republican Labor movements of British Occupied Ireland and of the Republic of Ireland join us in sending fraternal May Day greetings to all members and supporters of the Independent Socialist League, which we know will act always as the truest defender of working class internationalism in the U.S.A. The supreme task of Irish socialists is to revive the programme and traditions of the martyred socialist republican leaders, Connolly and Mellowes, in order that the hour of national freedom and social emancipation may be brought nearer.
Such objectives cannot be attained in Ireland or indeed anywhere else in the world, without the aid which the great American working class must furnish in striving to free itself from exploitation. To infuse the workers of America with socialist consciousness and to play a role in every struggle over rights or conditions is the task of the Independent Socialist League.
Today the genuine socialists are in a very small minority. Therefore, let the watchword of Connolly keep courage in our hearts so that, like him, we may prove worthy of our socialist cause and may kindle love of freedom and revolutionary combativeness among our fellow men:
“The Great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise!”
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