“[partition of Ireland], … the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.”

— James Connolly

in P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), James Connolly - Selected Writings, p. 275.

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