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are just a continuation of the fight that we fought in our days", and weeks before her death ten years later she proudly commented that "the unbroken tradition is saved by the Provos coming out against the border which cuts us off from six counties of our country." These immortal achievements of James Connolly in forging a leadership method characterised by complete reliance on the masses as masters, his internationalism and active resistance to imperialist war, his independent stand and achievements in united front politics and military affairs, and his ultimate triumph in saving the soul of Ireland -- its unbroken tradition of patriotic uprisings -- have led to his occupying a special place in the hearts of Irish patriots, so that all achievements of the Easter rising were closely associated by all those who participated in them with his name and those of Pearse, Clarke and the other leaders of the rising. This is further proof, if indeed further proof were needed, that the history of the revolutionary struggle of the working class is, in the words of Comrade Kim Jong Il, "a history of working-class leaders creating and developing revolutionary ideas, a history in which these ideas have been applied to transform the world." The Juche Idea crystall- ises the experience of the more advanced stage when socialism has consolidated its exercise of state power, and thus enables the experiences of Irish Republican and other revolutionary patriotic movements of the oppressed to be seen in the light of advanced science. The Irish people's aspirations for unity have focussed on the leadership of Tone, Emmet, Mitchel, Lalor, the Fenians, and James Connolly and the leaders of 1916. Where colonialism had succeeded 12

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