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James Connolly &
William Walker

 

The Connolly/Walker Controversy:
On Socialist Unity in Ireland

(1911)

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From Forward, May-July, 1911.
Republished in The Connolly-Walker Controversy: On Socialist Unity in Ireland by the Cork Workers Club.
Transcribed by The James Connolly Society in 1997.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

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Introduction


Plea for Socialist Unity in Ireland
by James Connolly

Rebel Ireland and Its Protestant Leaders
by William Walker

Ireland, Karl Marx and William
by James Connolly

Socialism and Internationalism:
A Reply to Friend Connolly
by William Walker

Socialist Symposium on Internationalism
and Other Things
by James Connolly

A Socialist (sic) Symposium
and an Evasion
by William Walker


Introductory Note

In the May 27th, 1911 edition of the socialist paper, Forward, James Connolly, as organiser for the Socialist Party of Ireland, made an appeal to the members of the Independent Labour Party (Belfast Area), for socialist unity in Ireland. His appeal envoked a reply from Belfast I.L.P. leader, William Walker, and a bitter controversy ensued until it was stopped by the editor. This pamphlet is an unabridged record of the controversy between Connolly and Walker which was published in Forward between May 27th and July 8th, 1911. 16.8.2003