Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ieDigital collection of political material from the Irish Left.
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Published #OnThisDay, 18th August 1997:
"Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks! For Trade Union Centred Defence of Traveller Halting Sites!"
A leaflet from the Dublin Spartacist Group on #TravellersRights
Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks! (1997) — Dublin Spartacist Group
Irish Left Archive
New document:
Marxism Ninety Seven.
A leaflet for the Socialist Workers' Party's annual conference, 1997.
Marxist Ninety Seven (1997) — Socialist Workers' Party
Irish Left Archive
Irish Left Archive shared 3 months ago
@CLR@mastodon.ieDCAR Leaflet on Basin Lane ‘protest’
From DCAR: Thousands of leaflets are being distributed across Dublin 8 addressing the Basin Lane ‘protest’, and highlighting the response from GENUINE community activists in the area.
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/dcar-leaflet-on-basin-lane-protest/
DCAR Leaflet on Basin Lane ‘protest’
The Cedar Lounge Revolution
Published #OnThisDay, 15th August 1970:
Communist Comment on riots in Belfast and the potential dissolution of Stormont.
From the Irish Communist Organisation (later British & Irish Communist Organisation, BICO).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2500/
#Ireland #Politics #History #IrishCommunistOrganisation #OTD
Communist Comment, No. 17 (1970) — Irish Communist Organisation
Irish Left Archive
Published #OnThisDay, 14th August 1971:
Drithleog, Nuachtlitir, Comhairle Ceantair Átha Cliath.
From Official Sinn Féin.
Drithleog (1971) — Sinn Féin [Official]
Irish Left Archive
New documents:
Leaflets issued during Ronald Reagan's visit to Ireland in 1984 by the Reagan Reception Campaign, Irish Campaign Against Reagan's Foreign Policy, and Labour Youth.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7853/ https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7852/ https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7851/
Not Wanted (1984) — Labour Youth
Irish Left Archive
#OnThisDay, 9th of August 1971, internment was re-introduced in the North with a large wave of arrests and imprisonments in dawn raids.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/08/09/#event-5734
On This Day, 9th August
Irish Left Archive
New document:
Barricade Bulletin, No. 14.
Produced by the Derry Anarchist Collective, 2021.
Barricade Bulletin, No. 14 (2021) — Derry Anarchist Collective
Irish Left Archive
"Long Live the Heroic Palestinian Resistance!
Down with The Fascist Aggression and Genocide of U.S.-Backed Israeli Zionism Against The Lebanese and Palestinian People!"
Red Patriot / An Tírghráthóir Dearg, published #OnThisDay, 1st August 1982, by the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
Red Patriot, Vol. 6, No. 3-4 (1982) — Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
Irish Left Archive
New document:
Fighting Talk, Summer 1997, from Anti-Fascist Action.
Fighting Talk, Summer 1997 (1997) — Anti-Fascist Action
Irish Left Archive
Published #OnThisDay, 27th July 1974:
Workers Weekly, Vol. 2, No. 8.
Workers Weekly was published by the Workers' Association (associated with the British & Irish Communist Organisation).
Workers' Weekly, Vol. 2, No. 8 (1974) — The Workers' Association
Irish Left Archive
Irish Left Archive shared 4 months ago
@earthworm@kolektiva.socialSomebody here who remembers the Apartheid boycottand wants to share how it was?
It was before I was born, but I'd really like to know how society was talking about it.Were the white South Africans depicted as victims or was there already consensus to ostracize them? (The article sounds like everybody, including politicians and churches applauded the boicott).
Or was there the argument that economic boycott doesn't help and hits the wrong people?
Was there also a cultural/academic boycott?
(Just asking random questions, maybe somebody who lived it wants to explain a little bit from these times...)
New document:
United Irishman, Vol 36, No. 7.
Newspaper of Sinn Féin The Workers' Party.
United Irishman, Vol. 36, No. 7 (1978) — Sinn Féin The Workers' Party
Irish Left Archive
#OnThisDay 19th of July 1984, a group of workers refused to handle South African goods, beginning the anti-apartheid Dunnes Stores strike.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/07/19/#event-5717
On This Day, 19th July
Irish Left Archive
#OnThisDay 18th of July 1981, a march in support of the Hunger Strikers campaign, ongoing since March of that year, ended with violent clashes outside the British Embassy after a Garda baton-charge, in which more than 200 people were hurt.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/07/18/#event-5714
On This Day, 18th July
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![1981: Serious clashes between Republican demonstrators and Gardaí outside the British Embassy took place
On 18th of July 1981, a march in support of the Hunger Strikers campaign, ongoing since March of that year, ended with violent clashes outside the British Embassy after a Garda baton-charge, in which more than 200 people were hurt.
A document from Revolutionary Struggle after the event, ‘Organise Against State Repression’, states:
On the 18th. July thousands of people from all over the country mobilised in Dublin for a march on the British Embassy in support of the Hunger Strickers [sic]. Before reaching the Embassy however, the marchers were stopped at Merrion Rd. by a wall of cops in riot gear, seceral [sic] rows deep. This strategy of confrontation and intimidation, meant to frighten people off the streets and deny them expression, was resisted by many brave comrades who tried to fight their way through. The cops held rank for fifteen minutes and then charged. Their violence and brutality as they ran riot, beating everyone in their path was pyscotic [sic].](https://posts.leftarchive.ie/attachments/thumbnails/6f7fafe81ab96046f50e9809144875fdd8011289c1b301acf260b12bfe2fae53/OTD-embassy.png)
Ireland — Past, Present and Future
Produced in 1983 by the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) and World Socialist Party (WSP), their affiliate in Ireland.
Ireland — Past, Present and Future (1983) — Socialist Party of Great Britain, World Socialist Party
Irish Left Archive
Leaflets distributed at the housing march organised by CATU last Saturday, 5th July: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/7801/
Political Material from: CATU Housing March, 5th July 2025
Irish Left Archive
New document: Dawn, 38-39, 1980 c.
Dawn magazine (An Irish magazine on nonviolent action civil liberties and movements for change) was associated with the Dawn Group and was published on a monthly basis from 1974 to 1985. The Dawn Group later become part of INNATE .
#OnThisDay, 26th June 1986, a referendum was held in Ireland to remove the prohibition of divorce.
The referendum was unsuccessful, with divorce remaining prohibited until 1995.
Referendum - Divorce Referendum, 1986
Irish Left Archive
New document: Red Alert, No. 1, April 2002.
Red Alert was produced by the Cork district of the Communist Party of Ireland in the early 2000s.
Red Alert, No. 1 (2002) — Communist Party of Ireland
Irish Left Archive