Tom Scripps
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Assistant National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party and writer for the World Socialist Web Site. https://www.wsws.org/en/authors/Thomas-Scripps
3/3 Research we have conducted into his first 13 years of life in Galway confirms that this process began earlier, in Ireland, amid that country's revolutionary decade (1913-23) and its bitter aftermath.
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Slander vs. biography: Aidan Beatty’s falsification of Gerry Healy’s family and childhood in a decade of rebellion and civil war
This essay is devoted to a detailed review of Gerry Healy’s family background and youth, based on research conducted in Ireland, including visits to the relevant archives in Dublin and in Galway where...
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December 3, 2024 at 11:29 AM
3/3 Research we have conducted into his first 13 years of life in Galway confirms that this process began earlier, in Ireland, amid that country's revolutionary decade (1913-23) and its bitter aftermath.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
2/3 He arrived in Britain as a child in the immediate aftermath of the General Strike and on the eve of the Great Depression, came of age in the Hungry Thirties amid the rise of fascism, and was a young man with the outbreak of the Second World War. He was forced to grow up quickly.
December 3, 2024 at 11:29 AM
2/3 He arrived in Britain as a child in the immediate aftermath of the General Strike and on the eve of the Great Depression, came of age in the Hungry Thirties amid the rise of fascism, and was a young man with the outbreak of the Second World War. He was forced to grow up quickly.