Irish Left Archive

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

#OnThisDay 8th June 1975 Irish Women United was constituted.

Their magazine, Banshee, explains their foundation:

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/08/#event-5524

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Feminism #IrishWomenUnited #Banshee #OTD

Two Irish general elections occurred #OnThisDay, 6th June, in 1977 and 1997.

Here' the Socialist Party of Ireland's (SPI) Advance magazine profiling their candidate Eamonn O'Brien in 1977. The SPI went on to merge with the Democratic Socialist Party in the early 1980s, which ultimately merged with Labour in 1990. (It is not related to the current Socialist Party).

And from 1997, an analysis from Labour's Emmet Stagg in TILT of Labour's losses in that election (the party lost 16 TDs, going from 32 to 17).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/06/

#OTD #Politics #History #Ireland #SocialistPartyOfIreland #Labour #Advance #TILT #GeneralElection

#OnThisDay 5th June 1982: March For Survival

Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marched from Parnell Square to Stephen's Green in Dublin, calling for pressure on the Irish government's position on disarmament and Irish neutrality.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2124/

#OTD #History #Politics #Activism #Protest #CND

Published #OnThisDay 5th June 2021:

"Towards a Programme for Eco-Socialism"

The founding programme of An Rabharta Glas - Green Left.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4369/

#Politics #Ireland #Ecosocialism #AnRabhartaGlas #GreenLeft #Environment #OTD

New document:

"25 Years On – We Shall Overcome"

An Phoblacht Republican News marks the 25th anniversary of the deployment of British troops in the North in 1969.

From Déardaoin, 11 Lúnasa / Thursday, 11 August 1994, the newspaper of Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6492/

#Politics #History #Ireland #AnPhoblacht #SinnFéin

Published #OnThisDay 4th June 1973:

"Performing Artists on a Flying Trapeze"

Gerry Foley on how Official Sinn Féin can build a "revolutionary party of the Irish people", from Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International (USFI).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1489/

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OfficialSinnFéin #FourthInternational #IntercontinentalPress

A demonstration was held #OnThisDay, 4th June 2005, against Israel’s occupation of Palestine during a soccer World Cup qualifying match between Ireland and Israel, which was taking place in Landsdown Road stadium.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6160/

#OTD #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #Protest #Activism #Palestine #IrishPolitics

#OnThisDay 1st June 1979, a group of protestors began an occupation of the development at Wood Quay, as part of the campaign to preserve the historical mediaeval site from destruction. Dubbed “Operation Sitric”, after Sigtrygg Silkbeard, a Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, the occupation lasted for three weeks.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/collection/2093/

#Ireland #History #OTD #Dublin