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Published #OnThisDay 15th August 1969, a statement from the IRA in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of the Bogside.

It calls for the disarming of the B Specials, withdrawal of British Troops and a UN-supervised all-Ireland election. It also rejects calls from some for the suspension of Stormont and introduction of direct Westminster rule.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1606/

#Ireland #History #Politics #TheTroubles #IRA #Republicanism

There's a nice round number: There are now 1000 documents in the Irish Left Archive!

That includes newspapers, magazines, posters, leaflets and pamphlets from hundreds of left organisations in Ireland's history.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/

#Ireland #History #Politics

Published #OnThisDay 14th August 1971:

Drithleog – Nuachtlitir, Comhairle Ceantair Átha Cliath, Sinn Féin

A newsletter from the Dublin region of Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3992/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Drithleog #OfficialSinnFéin

New document:

Resistance, Summer 2011, from the Irish Socialist Network (ISN).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6591/

#IrishPolitics #Resistance #IrishSocialistNetwork

#OnThisDay 9th August 1971, internment without trial was introduced in the North.

Aimed at weakening the IRA, an immediate wave of 342 arrests was made, many on little or no evidence.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/08/09/#event-5734

#OTD #Internment #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics

Published #OnThisDay 8th August 1972:

Nuacht Náisiúnta, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/275/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #NuachtNáisiúnta #OfficialSinnFéin

#OnThisDay 8th August 2018:

An occupation in Summerhill called for local council purchases of empty buildings, public housing on public land, tenant rights and rent controls.

Material from the occupation: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6131/

#Ireland #Housing #Occupation #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction

Published #OnThisDay 6th August 1976:

The Bottom Dog, "The working class paper of North Munster".

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/410/

#OTD #Ireland #History #Politics #BottomDog #Limerick

Published #OnThisDay 3rd August 1987:

"No to any form of devolution, no to any resurrection of Stormont!"

"Release the Birmingham six!"

Spirit of Freedom, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/310/

#Ireland #Politics #CPIML #SpiritOfFreedom #Maoism

Published #OnThisDay 1st August 1982:

"Demonstrate Against British Imperialism! Remember Ireland's heroic martyrs!"

"Long Live the 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, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/378/

#Ireland #Politics #History #CPIML #RedPatriot #Maoism #Communism

New documents:

Election leaflet and sample ballot from the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly elections, for Jemma Dolan of Sinn Féin, running in Fermanagh / South Tyrone.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6567/

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6568/

#Ireland #NorthernIreland #Politics #NIAssembly #Elections #SinnFéin #AE2022

New document:

H-Block/Armagh News, Vol. 1, No. 6, 26th September 1981

Produced by the Armagh/H-Block Action Group, a campaign from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) during the 1981 Hunger Strikes.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6562/

#IrishHistory #CPIML #HungerStrikes

From 1971, the Irish Liberation Press.

The paper was produced in Britain by the Irish National Liberation Solidarity Front (INLSF) in 1969, which was set up by the Communist Workers League of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) (CWLB(ML)). It ran until 1972, when the CWLB(ML) began to operate under its own name, and replaced the journal with Voice of the People.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1928/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #BritishLeft #IrishLiberationPress #INLSF #CWLBML

If you haven't heard it yet, in our latest episode we talk to artist, activist and researcher Emma Campbell about combining art and activism, Alliance for Choice and the campaign for abortion rights in Northern Ireland, her solo art work and the Array Collective, and winning the Turner Prize.

https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/emma-campbell-art-and-activism-alliance-for-choice-array-collective-and-the-turner-prize

Follow the Irish Left Archive Podcast @ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ie

#IrishPodcast #Politics #Activism #Art #AbortionRights #Alliance4Choice

Published #OnThisDay 21st July 1975:

"The Need to End the Feud Between 'Officials' and IRSP", An Interview with Seamus Costello.

By Gerry Foley in Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/563/

#OTD #IntercontinentalPress #FourthInternational #USFI #IRSP #OfficialSinnFéin #SeamusCostello

#OnThisDay 19th of July 1984, the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began when Mary Manning refused to handle fruit imported from South Africa in protest against apartheid, following a decision taken by IDATU members the previous day.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/07/19/#event-5717

#IrishHistory #SouthAfrica #DunnesStrike #Apartheid #OTD #IDATU

#OnThisDay, 18th July 1981, a march in support of the Hunger Strikers campaign, ongoing since March of that year, ended with violent clashes outside the British Embassy after a Garda baton-charge, in which more than 200 people were hurt.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/07/18/#event-5714

#IrishHistory #HungerStrikes #OTD

New document:

The Coffee Circle Papers: Paper 2 – New Century Socialism: Fighting for Justice in the Jungle

These were a series of papers produced by Democratic Left in 1998, after their period in government and losses in the subsequent election. The party went on to merge with Labour the following year.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6544/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #DemocraticLeft