Irish Left Archive

New document:

Marxist-Leninist Weekly, Vol. 19, No. 8

From the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), 1989.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7203/

#Ireland #Politics #History #CPIML #Maoism #MarxistLeninistWeekly

Published #OnThisDay

"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) (CPIML).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3057/

#Ireland #Politics #History #AngloIrishAgreement #CPIML #Maoism #MarxistLeninistWeekly

Published #OnThisDay 15th June 1969:

Squatter, No. 1, from the Dublin Housing Action Committee.

The DHAC was set up in 1967 by Sinn Féin and Left activists.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/300/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Housing #Squatter #HousingActionCommittee

#OnThisDay 12th of June 1982, the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) voted to dissolve.

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

#Ireland #Politics #History #SocialistLabourParty #Socialism #SWM #LWR #IWG #MSR

New document:

A Statement of Intent, Fronta Nua, 2024.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7188/

#Ireland #Politics #Antifascist #FrontaNua

Published #OnThisDay 5th June 2021:

"Towards a Programme for Eco-Socialism" – the founding programme of An Rabharta Glas - Green Left.

An Rabharta Glas (@AnRabhartaGlas@mastodon.ie) was set up by former Green party members as an eco-socialist party after the latter formed a coalition with FF and FG.

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

#Ireland #History #Politics #Rabharta #Greens

#OnThisDay 5th June 1982, the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament had a "March For Survival" in Dublin.

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

#Ireland #History #Politics #CND

#OnThisDay 4th June 2005, a demonstration was held 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 in Dublin.

Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign leaflets from the event can be viewed on our website as part of the Snapshots of Political Action project: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6160/

#Ireland #Politics #Palestine #IPSC #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #Activism #Protest

New document:

"Step Up the Mass Struggles Against Imperialism, Fascism and War!"

Voice of Revolution (Marxist-Leninist Weekly), Special Issue, December 21st – January 7th, 1983.

From the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7183/

#Ireland #Politics #History #VoiceOfRevolution #CPIML #Maoism

Published #OnThisDay 28th May 1973:

"Revolutionary Nationalism, Class Struggle, and Problems of Party Building in Ireland"

An article by Gerry Foley on the Official Republican movement for Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1488/

#Ireland #History #Politics #OTD #OfficialRepublicanism #IntercontinentalPress #FourthInternational

Published #OnThisDay: Workers' and Unemployed News, May 28th 1987

"All Working People Must Unite Against the Capitalist Offensive and Cut-Backs!"

From the Workers and Unemployed Movement.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6531/

#Ireland #History #Politics #OTD #WorkersAndUnemployedNews #WorkersAndUnemployedMovement

#OnThisDay in 1949, the Socialist Party of Ireland was founded:

On May 28th, 1949, a number of workers, representing Socialist Groups in Dublin and Belfast, met in Belfast and decided that the Groups should coalesce and form the Socialist Party of Ireland. That decision was subsequently ratified by the members of the Dublin and Belfast Groups; and so was born the first political party in Ireland to publicly and unequivocally declare its object to be the establishment of Socialism.

This Socialist Party of Ireland was associated with the SPGB and later became the World Socialist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/28/#event-4500

#Ireland #History #Politics #SocialistParty #WorldSocialism #SPGB #OTD

#OnThisDay 28th of May 1912, the Irish Labour party was founded.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/organisation/210/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Labour

New additions to the collection:

Stickers from Éirígí campaigns.

Break the Connection With Capitalism: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7174/

Up Housing: Universal Public Housing: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7175/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Éirígí #Housing #Capitalism

#OnThisDay 25th May 2018, the referendum to repeal the 8th amendment of the Irish constitution was passed, removing the barrier to abortion provision in the country.

You can see a number of documents from the campaign in our collection: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3762/

#Ireland #Politics #Referendums #Repeal #Repealed

New episode of the Irish Left Archive Podcast:

We discuss the new volume, Spirit of Revolution: Ireland from below, 1917–1923, with John Cunningham and Terry Dunne.

This edited volume looks at regional and local case studies during the revolutionary period, highlighting the widespread radicalism – beyond the national independence movement – that flourished around Ireland at the time in land and housing action, labour mobilisation and trade unionism.

https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/spirit-of-revolution-ireland-from-below-19171923

#Ireland #Podcast #History #Politics

#OnThisDay 24th May 2007 a general election took place in Ireland.

Documents on the election in our collection: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/3348/

#Ireland #Politics #History #Elections

Published #OnThisDay 24th May 1967:

The Irish Student, from the Irish Student Movement.

The ISM was associated with The Internationalists, which later became the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/297/

#Ireland #History #Politics #IrishStudentMovement #CPIML #Maoism

Today marks the 9th anniversary of the 2015 #MarriageEquality referendum in Ireland, which removed blocks on same-sex marriage.

On the first anniversary, we featured a series of articles by @tomboktu@twitter.com looking at the evolution of the issue in Gay Community News.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/1989/

#LGBTQ #Ireland #Referendums #GayCommunityNews