The Voice of Labour

(1918-1919)

Introduction

The Voice of Labour weekly was the successor to Irish Opinion, a paper started in 1917 by followers of James Connolly seeking to revive the Irish revolutionary movement after Easter Week. In April 1918 The Voice of Labour replaced Irish Opinion and, with the revival of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU), soon became the official organ of the Union. ITGWU Acting General Secretary’s James Connolly role in Easter Week helped cement the Irish labour movement’s links with Ireland’s struggle for freedom from British rule and The Voice of Labour reflected this unity. The paper declared itself to be the successor to both Jim Larkin’s Irish Worker newspaper of the pre-war ITGWU, suppressed by the British government in 1914, and James Connolly’s newspaper, The Workers’ Republic, suppressed in 1916.

In addition to extensive coverage of the struggles of Irish workers, The Voice of Labour reprinted articles by Larkin and Connolly and argued for a Marxist approach to Ireland’s freedom struggle.

The Voice of Labour continued publication until 1927. Here we present a partial run of the paper for 1918-1919.

1918
Volume I, Number 21, April 20, 1918
Volume I, Number 22, April 27, 1918
Volume I, Number 23, May 4, 1918
Volume I, Number 24, May 11, 1918
Volume I, Number 25, May 18, 1918
Volume I, Number 26, May 25, 1918
Volume I, Number 27, June 1, 1918
Volume I, Number28, June 8, 1918
Volume I, Number 29, June 15, 1918
Volume I, Number 30, June 22, 1918
Volume I, Number 31, June 29, 1918
Volume I, Number 32, July 6, 1918
Volume I, Number 33, July 13, 1918
Volume I, Number 34, July 20, 1918
Volume I, Number 35, July 27, 1918
Volume I, Number 36, August 3, 1918
Volume I, Number 37, August 10, 1918
Volume I, Number 38, August 17, 1918
Volume I, Number 39, August 24, 1918
Volume I, Number 40, August 31, 1918
Volume I, Number 41, September 7, 1918
Volume I, Number 42, September 14, 1918
Volume I, Number 43, September 21, 1918
Volume I, Number 44, September 28, 1918
Volume I, Number 45, October 5, 1918
Volume I, Number 46, October 12, 1918
Volume I, Number 47, October 18, 1918
Volume I, Number 48, October 26, 1918
Volume I, Number 49, November 2, 1918
Volume I, Number 50, November 9, 1918
Volume I, Number 51, November 16, 1918
Volume I, Number 52, November 23, 1918
Volume I, Number 53, November 30, 1918
Volume I, Number 54, December 7, 1918
Volume I, Number 55, December 14, 1918
Volume I, Number 56, December 21, 1918
Volume I, Number 57, December 28, 1918

1919
Volume I, Number 58, January 4, 1919
Volume I, Number 59, January 11, 1919
Volume I, Number 60, January 18, 1919
Volume I, Number 61, January 25, 1919
Volume I, Number 62, February 1, 1919
Volume I, Number 63, February 8, 1919
Volume I, Number 64, February 15, 1919
Volume I, Number 65, February 22, 1919
Volume I, Number 67, March 1, 1919
Volume I, Number 68, March 8, 1919
Volume I, Number 69, March 15, 1919
Volume I, Number 70, March 22, 1919
Volume I, Number 71, March 29, 1919
Volume I, Number 72, April 5, 1919
Volume I, Number 73, April 12, 1919
Volume I, Number 74, April 19, 1919
Volume I, Number 75, April 26, 1919
Volume I, Number 76, May 1, 1919
Volume I, Number 77, May 10, 1919
Volume I, Number 78, May 17, 1919
Volume I, Number 79, May 24, 1919
Volume I, Number 80, May 31, 1919
Volume I, Number 81, June 7, 1919
Volume I, Number 82, June 14, 1919
Volume I, Number 83, June 21, 1919
Volume I, Number 84, June 28, 1919
Volume I, Number 85, July 5, 1919
Volume I, Number 86, July 12, 1919
Volume I, Number 87, July 19, 1919
Volume I, Number 88, July 26, 1919
Volume I, Number 89, August 2, 1919
Volume I, Number 90, August 9, 1919
Volume I, Number 91, August 16, 1919
Volume I, Number 92, August 23, 1919
Volume I, Number 93, August 30, 1919
Volume I, Number 94, September 6, 1919
Volume I, Number 95, September 13, 1919
Volume I, Number 96, September 20, 1919

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