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Connolly on George V and the Monarchy

We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes. — James Connolly Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history. It derives its only sanction from the sword of the marauder, and the helplessness of the producer, and its gifts to humanity are unknown, save as they can be measured in the pernicious examples of triumphant and shameless iniquities. The Right Divine of Labour To be first of earthly things; That the Thinker and the Worker Are Manhood’s only Kings — Connolly

Queen Elizabeth II

She is so strong in the imagination that even in death she is able to cancel class conflict: unions suspend strike action . … and some of the great people she met in her life.