COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND, FINGLAS MEETING, 30 NOV 2009

JOE DEASY: IRISH MARXIST
[Joe Deasy giving a speech in Middle Abbey Street, c.1965.] The following clip is from an interview with Joe Deasy, who was born in 1922 and who met and worked with Jim Larkin Snr in the 1940s. Both were Labour councillors on Dublin Corporation. Joe would later leave the Labour party and join the Irish Workers League, which was a communist organisation, the antecedent to today’s Communist Party of Ireland. The intervi

JOHN THRONE ON THE CWI AND EXPULSION
In September 2009 I interviewed John Throne about his own history, as well as the Irish left and working class. We talked for about two hours and after I had stopped recording, I asked John would it be ok to ask him about his expulsion from the Committee for a Workers’ International. He said yes, it would be ok, and so I started taping again, and below is the recording. I feel I should make clear that I initiated the conversation about the CWI and the expulsion, and I did so because I knew nothing about it and wanted to find out the background to it. In othe

A PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS: THIS ONE SAYS THREE

WORKING CLASS ACTIVISM AND HIGHER EDUCATION: A VIEW FROM THE STATES
Sherry Linkon is co-director of the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University. Here she is talking about definitions of working class, class identity, and the experience of working class students in academia. she was speaking to the Working Class Student Union which is based at the University of Wisconsin. I’ve embedded part two of the video clips of her talk, as she starts talking here about working class studies. The videos clips of her talk can be found here at the Working Class Student Union YouTube page. The Working Cl