Socialist History Society Occasional Publication 38
“In O’Connell Street and along Eden Quay the dust was still thick upon the ground, the air was heavy with burning, and dense clouds of smoke obscured the ruins. Even when the rain came, and after three days of it, they were still smouldering. Read on ...
London Socialist Historians Workshop:
‘..Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies
They change the course of history
Everyday people like you and me…’
Rage Against the Machine, ‘Renegades of Funk’
From the Levellers who refused to support Cromwell’s war in Ireland, through to the Polish troops who rebelled against Napoleon and sided with the Haitian Revolution, and from the Irish American St Patrick’s Battalion who rebelled against American imperialism to fight with the Mexicans, and the British people who joined the Indian Rebellion of 1857, up to deserters from the Wehrmacht who joined the Red Army and German anti-Nazis who joined the French Resistance during the Second World War, there have been some rare but truly inspiring and heroic examples of internationalism throughout modern history when those being drafted into fighting for unjust wars rebelled to side and fight against imperialist oppression.