Claude McKay

“ To divert attention from the dastardly crime that is going on in Ireland, the English Junkers and their Press raise the cry of Mannixism. The religious bug-bear is invoked to justify junkerism in Belfast. It has been used to aid the Poles, but it has become a boomerang. It is natural that the Church, especially the Catholic, should take part in economic struggles. In the end it will try to snatch the victory from the workers and give it to the favoured class. ”

“ Meanwhile the Irish war goes merrily on, and British labour and the Daily Herald look on. The Executive of the Labour Party does not send out ponderous notes demanding the stopping of the Irish war.
Although funds are being solicited for the victimised workers of Belfast, we can learn nothing of the real conditions obtaining in that city from the Capitalist Press. Carsonism, using the loyalist thugs, has driven hundreds of working men from their jobs and homes because they dared to resent English oppression, and their wives and children are literally starving. ”

“ Both groups have buried their religious differences and united in a nobler and higher cause–to rid Egypt of foreign Imperialism. Even in India the different sects are coming together. What British Imperialism could not achieve in the coloured East, it has accomplished in white Ireland. ”