This month’s addition to the Connolly Archive is ‘Conscription’, first published in the ‘Worker’s Republic’ on 27th November 1915. Just over one year into the carnival of imperialist slaughter that was the First World War, the British establishment began to hint at the coming introduction of conscription.

This month’s addition to the Connolly Archive is ‘For The Citizen Army’, first published in the ‘Worker’s Republic’ on 30th October 1915. In it Connolly states the reasons for the establishment of The Irish Citizen Army, its purpose and its goals.