This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, one hundred and twenty-two years after the publication of the ground-breaking Casement Report and one hundred and forty-one years since King Leopold II of Belgium first declared himself supreme ruler of the ‘Congo Free State’

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the anniversary of Jim Larkin’s death in 1947, we republish the transcript of a long two and a half hour long speech delivered by Larkin to the Dublin Castle Commission.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the anniversary of his death in 1864, we republish Chapter One of ‘The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery’ by early Irish socialist writer James Bronterre O’Brien.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 30th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his co-accused in the ‘Ogoni Nine’, we republish ‘Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Final Address to the Military-Appointed Tribunal’ which Saro-Wiwa wrote for delivery at his trial.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 39th anniversary of the death of Mozambican Marxist-Leninist revolutionary, Samora Machel, we republish his speech ‘Educate Man to Win the War, Create a New Society and Develop our Country’

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 22nd anniversary of the death of Palestinian-American intellectual, Edward Said, we republish ‘Blind Imperial Arrogance’, a piece which was originally published in The Socialist Viewpoint in September 2003, shortly before Said’s death.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 112th anniversary of the death of August Bebel, we republish this extract from a longer speech entitled ‘The Social-Democracy and the Zentrum’, Bebel delivered at Bamberg on the 24th of September, 1902.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Miriam Daly, we republish ‘Women in Ulster’, a lecture Daly delivered while on a speaking tour of the United States during March and April 1979.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 39th anniversary of the death of Irish socialist republican Peadar O’Donnell, we republish ‘For or against the Ranchers? Irish working farmers in the Economic War’, a piece which O’Donnell wrote in 1932.

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, we republish ‘A New Nation’ by James Fintan Lalor. Lalor wrote this address to the landowners of Ireland at his family home in Tinakill, Abbeyleix in what was then called Queen’s County, now Co. Laois, on the 19th of April, 1847.