Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 27th June 1991, local elections were held in Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2251/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #LocalElection #Election #OTD

#OnThisDay 27th June 1998:

Does Ireland Need a “New Labour”?

An address by Dr. Pat Upton, T.D. to the Tom Johnson Summer School, Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/518/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Labour #NewLabour #OTD

New document:

Alliance of Health Service Unions, 1987 c.

A leaflet from Trades Unions across the health sector in Ireland announcing joint action.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6517/

#Ireland #Health #Politics #TradeUnion

#OnThisDay 26th June 1971, the Labour party dissolved the Fintan Lalor branch in Dublin North Central due to membership of the Socialist Labour Alliance.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/26/#event-4513

#Labour #SocialistLabourAlliance #IrishPolitics

Published #OnThisDay 22nd June 1973:

Comment, Vol. 2, No. 3, from the British and Irish Communist Organisation.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2356/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #BICO

New document:

Barricade Bulletin, No. 10, 2020.

Produced by the Derry Anarchist Collective, Barricade Bulletin takes its name from the 1969 Derry paper.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6506/

#IrishPolitics #IrishLeft #DerryAnarchistCollective #BarricadeBulletin #Anarchism #Derry

Last year, #OnThisDay 18th June, a cost of living crisis rally was held in Dublin.

Material distributed included leaflets from Militant Left, People Before Profit, the Socialist Party, and the Irish branch of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6047/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #Protest #Activism #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #MilitantLeft #PeopleBeforeProfit #SocialistParty #KKE

Published #OnThisDay 17th June 1988:

"Review of Anglo-Irish Agreement – simply a review of its effectiveness in maintaining partition and foreign imperialist enslavement of Ireland"

Marxist-Leninist Weekly, Vol. 18, No. 18, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3057/

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #CPIML #MarxistLeninistWeekly #Maoism

#OnThisDay 15th June 1989 a general election and European parliament election were held in Ireland.

The GE resulted in the first Fianna Fáil & Progressive Democrat government. It also saw the election of the first TD from the Green Party and increased seats for the Workers Party and Labour.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2232/

#OTD #IrishHistory #Elections #GeneralElection

Published #OnThisDay 15th June 1969:

Squatter, from the Dublin Housing Action Committee.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/300/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Squatting #Housing

#OnThisDay 14th June 1984, the European Parliament Elections were held in Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2233/

#OTD #EU #Ireland #IrishPolitics

#OnThisDay 12th June 2008, the first Lisbon Treaty referendum was held.

The referendum was opposed by most left campaigns and parties, including Sinn Féin, The Socialist Party, People Before Profit, The Workers Party, PANA and the People's Movement.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3068/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #EU #LisbonTreaty #Referendum

#OnThisDay 12th of June 1982, the Socialist Labour Party was dissolved.

Founded in 1977, the SLP sought to build a party of the Left, bringing together former Labour members and Left groups, which joined as tendencies — the Socialist Workers’ Movement (SWM), League for a Workers’ Republic, Irish Workers Group, and Movement for a Socialist Republic; though all left the SLP within a few years (with the SWM tendency leaving last in 1980).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/12/#event-5555

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #SocialistLabourParty #SocialistWorkersMovement #LeagueForAWorkersRepublic #IrishWorkersGroup #MovementForASocialistRepublic #Socialism

New document:

"An Anti-Imperialist's Guide to the Irish War", 1983.

From the Irish Freedom Movement, a campaign of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6500/

#IrishPolitics #IrishFreedomMovement #RevolutionaryCommunistParty #RCP

#OnThisDay 11th June 1981 a general election was held in Ireland, resulting in a minority Fine-Gael & Labour coalition government.

Several candidates stood for the Anti H-Block Committee, which supported the on-going Republican hunger strikes, with Paddy Agnew and Kieran Doherty elected.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2250/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #GeneralElection #HungerStrikes

#OnThisDay 11th June 2004, the Citizenship Referendum (27th amendment) was held and succeeded. The referendum removed the right to automatic Irish citizenship for people born in Ireland.

Proposed by the government coalition of Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats, and supported by Fine Gael, the amendment was opposed by parties on the left, the Human Rights Commission, and Council for Civil Liberties.

This contemporaneous pamphlet, by Kieran Allen for the Socialist Workers Party, addresses the arguments in favour and the anti-immigrant sentiment driving the campaign.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/496/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Referendum #SocialistWorkersParty #Immigration #Citizenship