RE: [Marxism] Harry Quelch and Ireland

["Jack Cade" <jack.cade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        Quelch was Editor of 'Justice', the SDF newspaper. He had
an office on the first floor of the SDF's 'Twentieth Century
Press' in Clerkenwell Green. Lenin used it to edit Iskra there,
which was printed in the building on cigarette paper on a flatbed
press. They would often adjourn to the Three Kings around the
corner for a pint. So Lenin knew Quelch fairly well.

        Today the building houses the Marx Memorial Library and
that office is the Lenin room'.

Jack


> My friend Ted Crawford mentions Harry Quelch's article, 
> "Would Ulster Be Right to Fight", written in 1912 at a time 
> when the Tories were threatening rebellion, and raising the 
> possibility of armed rebellion, against Liberal Party 
> legislation to grant Home Rule to Ireland.
> 
> Ted describes Quelch as "a worker, and leading Social 
> Democrat with whom Lenin stayed in England".



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