Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ieDigital collection of political material from the Irish Left.
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Published #OnThisDay 27th August 1974:
An Analysis of the Significance of the Ulster Workers’ Strike, May 14th-30th, 1974.
Published by the Necessity for Change Institute of Anti-Imperialist Studies, an imprint of the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
An Analysis of the Significance of the Ulster Workers’ Strike, May 14th-30th, 1974 (1974) — Necessity for Change Institute of Anti-Imperialist Studies
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Irish Left Archive shared 6 days ago
@CLR@mastodon.ieVigil Fairview Park 12pm Saturday 30th
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/vigil-fairview-park-12pm-saturday-30th/
Vigil Fairview Park 12pm Saturday 30th
The Cedar Lounge Revolution
Published #OnThisDay 25th August 1969:
"No Peace Until Unionism Is Smashed"
Barricades Bulletin, from the Derry Labour Party Young Socialists in the aftermath of the "Battle of the Bogside".
Barricades Bulletin, Special Edition (1969) — Young Socialists [DLP]
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New documents:
Stickers from Irish language group, Misneach.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7889/ https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7886/ https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7887/ https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7888/
Lonnaíochtaí Lán-Ghaeilge Anois! (2020 c.) — Misneach
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Published #OnThisDay 24th August 1969:
Tasks for the Republican Movement in the 26 Counties, issued by the Coiste Seasta of Sinn Féin.
Tasks for the Republican Movement in the 26 Counties (1969) — Sinn Féin [Pre 1970]
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"The Greatest Irony of the Century"
From SuperSpi, magazine of the Socialist Party of Ireland, published in 1978 soon after the first Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
![The Greatest Irony of the Century
The State of Israel recently celebrated er its 30th Anniversary without being able to say that its future was any more secure than at the time of its proclamation in 1948.
What is unique about Israel that it is still surrounded by hostile neighbours and its existence still under question? It is the fact that the political basis of the state is founded on Zionism, a political movement founded on the principle that people of of the Jewish religion cannot be assimilated into any of the nations of the world bat must live in an exclusively Jewish state on their own.
Zionism, first organised as a movement by Theodor Herzal 1897, was always a reactionary movement which found its greatest supporters in the GAL ranks of European conservatives. The ioe Jerusalem British government, the German Kaiser and the Russian Czar were greatly interested in Herzal's movement and he rec- eived support from them in his efforts to detach Jewish people from the nations of their birth and pressure them into joining this campaign for a seperate state for Jews.
[Herzal] did not mind where this state would be established but, when after the First World War the British became rulers of Palestine, the land where once existed the Hebrew tribal states of ancient Israel and Judah, the Zionists fixed their sights on establishing a state on this territory.
After World War II, when the Western powers at the United Nations agreed to allow the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, hundreds of thousands of Jewish people from Eastern Europe were helped by the Zionist movement to emigrate to Palestine and give the necessary muscle for establishing the State of Israel in 1948.
The wishes of the Arab people of Palestine were totally ignored in all these developments and almost their entire number were forced, by terrorism and open warfare, to flee from their ancestral homeland into neighbouring Arab states.
Since 1948, Zionist Israel, with its apartheid system of exclusive rights for people of the Jewish faith, has continually used brute force to maintain its existence and to expand its territory by agression against its neighbours. It is indeed ironic that the Jewish people, oppressed by Hitler's Germany should have adopted the Nazi ta[c]tic of "Blitzkrieg" which they use against the Palestine Arabs and the people of Egypt, Syria and just lately, Lebanon.
Nevertheless, it is almost inevitable that a political movement the likes of Zionism, which is, no more no less, a Jewish apartheid system, should find itself more and more resorting to fascist tactics in order to preserve its existence.
Is it any wonder also, that the Israeli Government has always had the closest links with the only other apartheid regime in the world; the vicious Vorster regime in South Africa.](https://posts.leftarchive.ie/attachments/thumbnails/1e2e2c36ddc409df027f888e7e7f4cf9fa379b01ce495fa9df446f45189f7abe/superspi-israel-1978.jpeg)
Published #OnThisDay, 22nd August 1975:
The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.
The Irish People, Vol. 3, No. 33 (1975) — Sinn Féin [Official]
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#OnThisDay, 21st of August 1984, during the miners’ strike in Britain, a group of partners and children of striking miners visited Tallaght. The week-long trip was organised by the Tallaght Committee to Support Mine Workers, to give striking workers’ families a holiday. The visit included a Lord Mayor’s reception at the Mansion House, a meeting with the Chair of Dublin County Council, meetings with Tallaght Community Council, trips to Mosney Holiday Camp, Cantrell & Cochrane and Portmarnock racecourse.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/08/21/#event-5760
On This Day, 21st August
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Published #OnThisDay, 18th August 1997:
"Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks! For Trade Union Centred Defence of Traveller Halting Sites!"
A leaflet from the Dublin Spartacist Group on #TravellersRights
Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks! (1997) — Dublin Spartacist Group
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New document:
Marxism Ninety Seven.
A leaflet for the Socialist Workers' Party's annual conference, 1997.
Marxist Ninety Seven (1997) — Socialist Workers' Party
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Irish Left Archive shared 16 days ago@CLR@mastodon.ieDCAR Leaflet on Basin Lane ‘protest’
From DCAR: Thousands of leaflets are being distributed across Dublin 8 addressing the Basin Lane ‘protest’, and highlighting the response from GENUINE community activists in the area.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/dcar-leaflet-on-basin-lane-protest/
DCAR Leaflet on Basin Lane ‘protest’
The Cedar Lounge Revolution
Published #OnThisDay, 15th August 1970:
Communist Comment on riots in Belfast and the potential dissolution of Stormont.
From the Irish Communist Organisation (later British & Irish Communist Organisation, BICO).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2500/
#Ireland #Politics #History #IrishCommunistOrganisation #OTD
Communist Comment, No. 17 (1970) — Irish Communist Organisation
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Published #OnThisDay, 14th August 1971:
Drithleog, Nuachtlitir, Comhairle Ceantair Átha Cliath.
From Official Sinn Féin.
Drithleog (1971) — Sinn Féin [Official]
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New documents:
Leaflets issued during Ronald Reagan's visit to Ireland in 1984 by the Reagan Reception Campaign, Irish Campaign Against Reagan's Foreign Policy, and Labour Youth.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7853/ https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7852/ https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7851/
Not Wanted (1984) — Labour Youth
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#OnThisDay, 9th of August 1971, internment was re-introduced in the North with a large wave of arrests and imprisonments in dawn raids.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/08/09/#event-5734
On This Day, 9th August
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New document:
Barricade Bulletin, No. 14.
Produced by the Derry Anarchist Collective, 2021.
Barricade Bulletin, No. 14 (2021) — Derry Anarchist Collective
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"Long Live the Heroic Palestinian Resistance!
Down with The Fascist Aggression and Genocide of U.S.-Backed Israeli Zionism Against The Lebanese and Palestinian People!"
Red Patriot / An Tírghráthóir Dearg, published #OnThisDay, 1st August 1982, by the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
Red Patriot, Vol. 6, No. 3-4 (1982) — Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
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New document:
Fighting Talk, Summer 1997, from Anti-Fascist Action.
Fighting Talk, Summer 1997 (1997) — Anti-Fascist Action
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Published #OnThisDay, 27th July 1974:
Workers Weekly, Vol. 2, No. 8.
Workers Weekly was published by the Workers' Association (associated with the British & Irish Communist Organisation).
Workers' Weekly, Vol. 2, No. 8 (1974) — The Workers' Association
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Irish Left Archive shared a month ago
@earthworm@kolektiva.socialSomebody here who remembers the Apartheid boycottand wants to share how it was?
It was before I was born, but I'd really like to know how society was talking about it.Were the white South Africans depicted as victims or was there already consensus to ostracize them? (The article sounds like everybody, including politicians and churches applauded the boicott).
Or was there the argument that economic boycott doesn't help and hits the wrong people?
Was there also a cultural/academic boycott?
(Just asking random questions, maybe somebody who lived it wants to explain a little bit from these times...)