Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ieDigital collection of political material from the Irish Left.
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Published #OnThisDay 26th April 1994:
The Downing Street Declaration: New Unionism and the Communities of Resistance
From the Republican Worker Tendency.
The Downing Street Declaration: New Unionism and the Communities of Resistance (1994) — Republican Worker Tendency
Irish Left Archive
New document:
Militant, No. 247.
The final issue of Militant, as they transitioned to The Socialist Party in 1996.
Militant, No. 247 (1996) — Socialist Party
Irish Left Archive
Published #OnThisDay, 20th April 1985:
"Celebrate May Day!" "Farewell Comrade Enver!"
Voice of Revolution, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), on annual May day celebrations and the death of Albanian leader Enver Hoxha, whom the CPIML supported in the Sino-Albanian split.
Voice of Revolution (Marxist-Leninist Weekly), Vol. 9, No. 13 (1985) — Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
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#OnThisDay 19th April 2003, a demonstration was held to oppose the invasion of Iraq and the US military’s use of Shannon Airport in Newbridge, Kildare.
Documents distributed by County Kildare Anti-War Group, Socialist Party and Socialist Workers' Party are collected here as part of the #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction project: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6108/
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Political Material from: Anti-War Demonstration, 19th April 2003
Irish Left Archive
A cartoon highlighting church hypocrisy on abortion.
The cartoon accompanied an article asking readers to vote No in the 1983 eighth amendment referendum, from Women's View.
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#OnThisDay, 17th April 1966, a huge Republican demonstration in Belfast marked the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
On This Day, 17th April
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New document: Oráid an Uachtaráin Presidential Address, Tomás Mac Giolla TD, Árd Fheis Annual Conference, 1986, The Workers Party
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6399/
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Oráid an Uachtaráin Presidential Address, Tomás Mac Giolla TD, Árd Fheis Annual Conference, 1986 (1986) — The Workers' Party
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From the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in 1975: Bill of Rights (Northern Ireland) Act 1975, presented to the people of N. Ireland by N.I.C.R.A.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4589/
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Bill of Rights (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 (1975) — Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
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A cartoon from United Irishman in 1975 on American adoptions of Vietnamese children.
United Irishman was the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin.
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Published #OnThisDay 13th April 1973, a "Special Election Bulletin" from the Democratic Student Front.
The group was formed by the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) in Trinity College Dublin to contest the student representative council elections.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/457/
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Special Election Bulletin, 13th April 1973 (1973) — Democratic Student Front
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@juergenklute@digitalcourage.socialHalf a year of feminist revolt in Iran: demands on the EU
Half a year of feminist revolt in Iran: demands on the EU
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Updates to our bibliography of Irish Left periodicals: https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/updated-bibliography-of-irish-left-periodicals/
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Updated Bibliography of Irish Left Periodicals
The Cedar Lounge Revolution
New document:
The Socialist, No. 137, 26 November 1999. Newspaper of the Socialist Party (England & Wales).
The Socialist, No. 137 (1999) — Socialist Party [England & Wales]
Irish Left Archive
From 1971, the first issue of Official Sinn Féin's theoretical journal, Teoric.
Teoiric, No. 1 (1971) — Sinn Féin [Official]
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A leaflet from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), which folds out to a Palestinian flag.
Collected at a 2005 Palestine solidarity demonstration during an Ireland-Israel soccer match.
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@marymcauliffe@mastodon.ieWhat a fun morning filming with French TV in Nearys Pub talking about the pubs campaign led by Nell McCafferty and others in the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement. I think there should be a plaque to them in Nearys - I will be emailing them about it #irishwmnhist #historylife #mastodaoine
From 1969, an article on opposition to the appointment of Charles as Prince of Wales, and the ongoing trial of nine members of the Free Wales Army.
From United Irishman, newspaper of Sinn Féin.
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![Scanned newspaper article headlined "Wales Defiled!", with a caricature image of Charles, and reading:
On July 1 as we go to press a representative of the English Crown, the most vicious institution of murder the world has ever known, was installed as "prince" of Wales.
Surrounded by the largest force of police and troops ever mounted in peacetime the English “royals” imposed themselves on the people of Wales. The “royal” occasion did not pass without protest however: bombs exploded in Cardiff, the Welsh Capital, and in Abergele, forty miles from Caernarvon, two men were killed while placing explosives in a government office.
At the same time the marathon trial of members of the Free Wales Army was coming to an end and the verdicts were due to be announced on July 1. Referring to the trial, our Welsh correspondent writes:
Now as the Free Wales Army trial drags to its seemingly interminable close the moment of decision — the “crunch” — arrives. Not only for those patriots in the dock at Swansea. The hour of decision has arrived for the whole movement towards devolution of Government away from the Whitehall tyrannies of the Harold Wilson regime. Sadly, most sadly, one or two signs of the cracking of resolve are to be seen amongst those who took upon themselves the heavy responsibility of putting themselves forward as martyrs in the cause of the struggle to save the lifeblood of the Welsh nation.
The inspiration for the Welsh militant movement sprang — as it was bound to do — from the great examples of the Irish patriots of the time of Ireland’s agony.
But from the example of the martyrs for Irish independence those who are now in doubt — and who can blame them after the ordeal they have undergone in English prisons over the past months? — they, these new martyrs in the cause of Wales, must draw fresh strength.
They must stand firm. One sign of weakness, one indication that one or two may be tempted, fatally, to “crawl out from under” the weight of their responsibility — a responsibility to the generations of new Welshmen and women in the years to come — and the very existence of Wales, as a Nation again, will be equally fatally threatened.
Stand firm, the new martyrs of Wales.
Remember the examples of Pearse, of Connolly, of Ap Griffith, the Welshman him self who inspired in those days of the other struggles for the freedom of Ireland. Stand firm. For the dignity of the Welsh nation.
Only stand fearless before the threats of the London Government hirelings, the Quisling traitors of Wales, who are even now drawing their wages in Saxon gold as drovers of the Welsh cattle out of Wales and to the "Sais“ New Towns, only stand firm now all can be won.
Only stand firm now and as Ireland survived its testing hour, so can Wales today.
A heavy responsibility rests on the shoulders of the men on trial. They must prove themselves worthy of it.
Any sign of weakness, any sign of fear, and the whole movement towards the rennaissance [sic] of the Welsh spirit will be put back a hundred years.
The men on trial at the Inquisition of Swansea have the ability to write themselves into a golden page of Welsh history. Stand firm Welshmen. The heart and soul of a new Wales is with you. The new martyrs of Wales have already been likened to “the tip of the spear” — this one action, this one public martyrdom, and the modern “Siege of The Post Office" in open court can win Wales its freedom after 500 years of insidious and open oppression.
Stand firm and all can be won.
Stand firm for Wales!](https://posts.leftarchive.ie/attachments/thumbnails/b6d1adb099ec226dea248ad681839d48208ef6ddc2e03364aa530e855843429b/UI-Wales-defiled.jpeg)
New document: People's Voice, No. 6.
Magazine of Saor Éire, 1969.
Note, this is the Cork-based organisation, not to be confused with the Saor Éire Action Group.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6371/
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People's Voice, No. 6 (1969) — Saor Éire [Cork]
Irish Left Archive
The 50th Anniversary Conference of the Irish Labour History Society is taking place from 14th–17th September 2023.
The conference is entitled "Visions of Labour and Class in Ireland and Europe".
Tickets are available from the ILHS website: https://www.irishlabourhistorysociety.com/conference-23/conference-23-tickets/
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Conference 23 tickets - Irish Labour History Society
Irish Labour History Society
Published #OnThisDay 1st April 1972:
"Military Dictatorship in Northern Ireland"
Freedom, anarchist weekly from Freedom Press.
Freedom, Vol. 33, No. 14 (1972) — Freedom Press
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