Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ieDigital collection of political material from the Irish Left.
#Ireland #Politics #History #Activism #IrishLeftArchive #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction
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@workersliberty@union.placeSolidarity to all fighting capitalism and oppression on this International Women's Day!
On this day we remember how in 1979, in heavy snow, thousands of women gathered in Tehran for the first ever celebration of IWD in Iran.
5 days in 1979
Workers' Liberty
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@skibbereeneagle@mastodon.onlineHappy International Women's Day #IWD, a day which has its origins in the #Labour Movement and the 1908 strike by immigrant garment workers in New York.
#Labour #WomensRights #StrongerTogether #TradeUnions #IWD23
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@MinceirBeoir@mastodon.ieOn #IWD2023 let us reflect on some #IrishTraveller women's Stats
Die 11.5yrs younger
Suicide rates 6x higher
Community unemployment 83%
Community 1% reach 3rd level
1 Senator after 100yrs of StateStill experiencing Cultural
Genocide,Traveller Racism.So yes #EmbraceEquity
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@Ciaraioch@mastodon.ieSome Irish women of note, for the day that's in it.
Print: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/mini-mn-10x12-inch-fine-art-print
Mini Mná (10x8 Inch Fine Art Print) — Ciaraíoch Art
Ciaraíoch Art
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@belfastiww@kolektiva.socialOur statement for International Women's Day 2023:
https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/international-women-s-day-the-struggle-continues
International Women's Day: The Struggle Continues!
IWW Ireland
#OnThisDay 8th March 2018, an International Women's Day march for choice took place in Dublin calling for the repeal of the eighth amendment. Here are documents distributed at the march: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6061/
The eighth amendment was repealed by referendum the following May, removing the block on abortion in Ireland.
#SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #OTD #RepealTheEighth #Repealed
Political Material from: International Women's Day March for Choice, 8th March 2018
Irish Left Archive
"The votes are counted"
Starry Plough, magazine of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), on the NI Assembly election which took place #OnThisDay 7th March 2007.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/1456/?page=13
#IrishLeftArchive #IrishRepublicanSocialistParty #IRSP #NIAssembly #IrishElections #IrishPolitics #OTD
View Document: Starry Plough, Easter 2007 - Irish Republican Socialist Party
Irish Left Archive
New document: Women's View, No. 6, Summer 1981
Women's View was published by Sinn Féin The Workers' Party (later The Workers' Party) throughout the 1980s.
Women's View, No. 6 (1981) — Sinn Féin The Workers' Party
Irish Left Archive
"Socialists, Republicanism and the Armed Struggle"
A pamphlet by Kieran Allen for the Socialist Workers' Movement, 1991.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/296/
#IrishLeftArchive #Socialism #Republicanism #SocialistWorkersMovement #SWM #SWP
Socialists, Republicanism and the Armed Struggle (1991) — Socialist Workers' Movement
Irish Left Archive
"James Connolly and the struggle for Marxism in Ireland"
A 1980 article from the Workers' Revolutionary Party journal, Labour Review.
James Connolly and the struggle for Marxism in Ireland (1980) — Workers Revolutionary Party
Irish Left Archive
A cartoon on the Iran-Contra scandal, in which the US sold arms to Iran, despite an embargo, to use the proceeds to fund the right-wing Contras' attempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.
From Ireland, the international magazine of the Workers' Party, 1987.
#Ireland #WorkersParty #IranContra #Reagan #IrishLeftArchive
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@ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ieColm Breathnach: Workers Party, Democratic Left and Irish Socialist Network
Colm Breathnach talked to us about his experience in the Workers Party, as a local councillor in the 1990s, the split of Democratic Left, Irish Socialist Network and his subsequent activism in Scotland.
Published #OnThisDay 3rd March 1975:
"'Officials' Turn Against Their Own Past"
By Gerry Foley, from Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/562/
#IrishLeftArchive #OfficialSinnFéin #IntercontinentalPress #FourthInternational #OTD
'Officials' Turn Against Their Own Past (1975) — Gerry Foley
Irish Left Archive
Irish Left Archive shared 2 years ago@ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ieConor Kostick: SWP, Independent Left, and Left Organising and Activism
In our first series we spoke to activist, historian and author Conor Kostick about his political experience with the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) and more recently with Independent Left.
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@peelersandsheep@mastodon.ieI am on the latest installment of the Irish History Show talking about agrarian conflict in the Irish Revolution, check it out here - http://irishhistoryshow.ie/91-land-and-revolution/
The photo is from the Ranch War (c.1906-09) which was in many was a precursor of the movements of 1918, 1920 & 1922, it shows a Royal Irish Constabulary detachment protecting a large-holder - something which I talk about being expected of the (Free State) Special Infantry Corp too.91 Land and Revolution - The Irish History Show
The Irish History Show
#OnThisDay 1st of March 1981, hunger strikes began when Bobby Sands started refusing food. A total of ten people died before the strike ended in October.
On This Day, 1st March
Irish Left Archive
"Ireland: Background to What Is Happening To-Day"
From Official Sinn Féin, an overview of the situation in Ireland and position of the Republican movement.
Ireland: Background to What Is Happening To-Day (1972 c.) — Sinn Féin [Official]
Irish Left Archive