It is safe to assume that the new book, published in the Library of the Labor Movement series, a collection of works by Michael O'Riordan, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, will attract special attention from the reader. First of all, it attracts the very personality of its author - the experienced leader of the Communist Party, acting on one of the most difficult and dramatic sections of the world front of the struggle for freedom. Michael O'Riordan is a man of heroic fate, in which the social and political upheavals of our historical time, which has been leading its account since the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution, have responded, and in many ways embodied. The same age as October, he, in his own words, is "as young as the Soviet government is young." And at the same time, the life path he traveled, which lay in the thick of the class and national liberation battles of the Irish people and the international working class, is so consistent and direct, so correctly corresponds to the political and moral convictions of this person that it could serve as a textbook story about the Communist. A self-taught worker who rose to the heights of political and universal culture. The Irish patriot, whose interest in politics from his early youth was awakened by his national feelings, never in spite of all the hardships of his life did not think about leaving his long-suffering homeland, he is one of 125 Irish fighters of international brigades in Spain who fought there not only with the Francoists, but also with the brigade "for Christianity and Franco," put together from the fascist Irish fellows. A prisoner of the Irish concentration camp, who managed to establish the publication of the underground camp newspaper Iskra, addressed to the Irish Republicans, he is one of those who, in the first post-war years, in the conditions of anti-communist hysteria and real pogroms unleashed against the Communists, recreates the Marxist-Leninist party in the Irish ~ Respub = face. It is logical and, one might say, symbolic that Michael O'Riordan became the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, which reunited in 1970 on an all-Ireland basis.