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.

This month, as part of our On The Shoulders of Giants series and on the 37th anniversary of the extra-judicial execution of Mairéad Farrell along with her comrades Seán Savage and Daniel McCann by the

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 106th anniversary of the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, we republish ‘A Call to the Workers of the World’

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 102nd anniversary of the death of Liam Mellows, we republish his Dáil speech against the Treaty

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 94th anniversary of the death of Mother Jones, we republish her Speech to Striking Miners which she delivered in the courthouse square of

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 104th anniversary of the death of Terence MacSwiney

This month, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, and on the 47th anniversary of the death in custody of Steve Biko, we republish ‘Black Consciousness and the Quest for True Humanity’