Irish Left Archive

"The Fruits of Apartheid"

From 1983, a cartoon supporting the boycott of South African fruit in response to apartheid.

From Ireland, international magazine of the Workers' Party.

#Ireland #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #WorkersParty #IrishLeftArchive

From Allan Armstrong, on the @rcfscotland@mastodon.scot website, an article looking at the language issue across these islands, and connections between Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, and Scots language struggles.

https://republicancommunist.org/blog/2022/12/26/the-language-struggle-and-the-challenge-to-the-uk-state/

#Politics #Language #Gaeilge #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Welsh #Cymraeg #Scots #RepublicanSocialistForum

Published #OnThisDay 23rd January 1976:

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

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/530/

#Ireland #Politics #History #TheBottomDog #IrishLeftArchive

#OnThisDay 23rd January 1973:

"Giving Irish Trotskyism a Bad Name"

A letter from the Belfast branch of the Revolutionary Marxist Group to the rest of the organisation over a proposal to change the name from ‘Revolutionary’ to ‘Republican Marxist Group’.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3161/

#Ireland #Politics #History #RevolutionaryMarxistGroup #Trotskyism #IrishLeftArchive

New stickers from Éirígí:

1/3 #TrackTheVultures, 2021. Part of Éirígí's housing campaign highlighting corporate ownership of housing.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6280/

#Ireland #Politics #Éirígí #IrishLeftArchive

Published #OnThisDay 22nd January 1973:

"Official Republicans Meet in Dublin: A Step Forward for the Irish Vanguard"

Gerry Foley on the Official Republican Convention in 1972. From Intercontinental Press, the magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3237/

#Ireland #Politics #History #FourthInternational #IntercontinentalPress #IrishLeftArchive

Published #OnThisDay 21st January 1991:

"Towards a Peaceful Ireland", from Republican Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2423/

#Ireland #Politics #History #RepublicanSinnFéin #IrishLeftArchive

New podcast episode:

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/45-one-small-step-by-michael-flavin/

We talk to academic and author Michael Flavin about his novel, One Small Step . Published by Vulpine Press, the novel tells the story of a young boy from a Northern Irish catholic background growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s and the impact of the 1974 Birmingham bombings. We discuss Michael’s own background, coming from an Irish family in Birmingham, which he drew on for the novel, and his research into the Troubles, which also led to publishing the academic article, “Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles ”.

#Ireland #Politics #History #Birmingham #IrishLeftArchive #Podcast

New episode of the Irish Left Archive Podcast:

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/45-one-small-step-by-michael-flavin/

We talk to academic and author Michael Flavin about his novel, One Small Step . Published by Vulpine Press, the novel tells the story of a young boy from a Northern Irish catholic background growing up in Birmingham in the 1970s and the impact of the 1974 Birmingham bombings. We discuss Michael’s own background, coming from an Irish family in Birmingham, which he drew on for the novel, and his research into the Troubles, which also led to publishing the academic article, “Four Typologies of Leadership Applied to a Survey of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin in the Troubles ”.

#Ireland #Politics #History #Birmingham #IrishLeftArchive

"Sinn Féin Philosophy: Revolutionary Or Reformist?"

An article from the first issue of Congress '86, magazine of the League of Communist Republicans (LCR).

The LCR formed among IRA prisoners who resigned following the ending of Sinn Féin's policy of abstention in 1986.

#Ireland #Politics #History #LeagueOfCommunistRepublicans #SinnFéin #IrishLeftArchive

From 1949: “Irish Workers' Road to Freedom”

The Manifesto of the Irish Workersʼ League (IWL).

The IWL (later Irish Workersʼ Party) was formed in the late 1940s in the South, after the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) dissolved during WWII.

In 1970, it merged with the Communist Party of Northern Ireland to re-found the CPI.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1850/

#Ireland #Politics #History #CPI #Communism #IrishLeftArchive

Published #OnThisDay 18th January 1975:

"The End of the Ceasefire"

Workers' Weekly, from the Workers' Association (part of the British and Irish Communist Organisation), on the short IRA ceasefire in 1974/75.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/347/

#OTD #Ireland #History #Politics #BICO #IrishLeftArchive

#OnThisDay, 17th January 1971:

A press release from Sinn Féin announcing their new Social & Economic Programme.

This is effectively a draft of the Éire Nua policy, which was supported by Sinn Féin into the 1980s, and continued to be supported by Republican Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1876/

#Ireland #Politics #History #SinnFéin #ÉireNua #IrishLeftArchive

New document:

Irish Reporter, No. 5, first quarter 1992.

"The Free Press and its Enemies". This issue looks at Section 31 and press coverage.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6268/

#Ireland #Politics #History #IrishReporter #Censorship #Section31 #IrishLeftArchive

From 1988:

"Sinister Special Branch Operation"

The Proletarian, Paper of the International Socialist League of Ireland (ISLI).

The International Socialist League emerged in the UK from the break-up of the Workers' Revolutionary Party and was associated with Cliff Slaughter.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/506/

#Ireland #History #Politics #ISLI #WRP #IrishLeftArchive

@dev@microblog.pub Hey, thanks for including our account in the examples in the readme! Much appreciated.

Getting used to using it now, and I think we've found most of the gaps in our templates... It's great to have such a clean and customisable fediverse software :)

The Rights of Man in Ireland, by Sean Cronin, 1969.

Published by the Wolfe Tone Society.

The book seeks to give an overview of the roots of the division in the North and more broadly; and the economic, political and social structures underpinning that division. It also gives an outline of the changing political situation to 1969.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/535/

#Ireland #Politics #History #IrishLeftArchive