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Audio: Early Irish communist - William Thompson

category ireland / britain | history | link to audio author Monday April 02, 2007 22:37author by Joe - WSM Report this post to the editors

William Thompson was one of the of the first people to critically engage with political economy and attempt to turn it around to defend the improvement of the condition of the working class and rural poor. He was from a Anglo- Irish landowning family from West Cork and was to become a leading figure in the early Co-operative movement. In this talk from the anarchist bookfair Paul Bowman talks about the importance of Thompson and the relevance of his ideas today

Download is 9.1 mb MP3 file, just over 41 minutes in
http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/mar2007/paulonthoms...n.mp3

More on Thompson at http://www.wsm.ie/thompson

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