Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 15th of March 1970, the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) was reconstituted, with the merging of the Irish Workers’ Party (IWP) and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI). (The earlier party had split in 1941).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/03/15/#event-5791

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#OnThisDay, 31st January 1971, the Cork Communist Organisation was formed after resigning from the Irish Communist Organisation.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/01/31/#event-4512

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New document:

The Marxism of James Connolly, from March 1968.

Irish Communist Organisation Pamphlets No. 15.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6627/

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Published #OnThisDay 1st August 1982:

"Demonstrate Against British Imperialism! Remember Ireland's heroic martyrs!"

"Long Live the 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, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/378/

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Published #OnThisDay 7th July 2007:

Unity, then Northern paper of the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI).

After divisions in the CPI in 2021, Unity continues to be produced by the newly formed Irish Communist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4239/

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For an overview of materials from the British left on Ireland, we've gathered documents from several strands – including Labour, Trotskyist groups, CPGB and other communists, Maoists, SPGB and others – in this document collection: https://www.leftarchive.ie/collection/2835/

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For Unity and Socialism: Manifesto of the Communist Party of Ireland

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2115/

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#OnThisDay 15th March 1970, the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) was reconstituted, with the merging of the Irish Workers’ Party (IWP) and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI).

The party had divided in 1941 amid tensions over the entry of the Soviet Union into the second world war.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/03/15/#event-5791

#OTD #CommunistPartyOfIreland #CPI #CPNI #IrishWorkersParty #Communism #IrishPolitics

"For a Prosperous Ulster: An Explanation of the Communist Party’s Policy for Northern Ireland"

From the Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI) in 1944.

The CPNI existed was extant between 1941 and 1970 at which point it merged with the Irish Workers' Party to refound the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/489/

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The first Socialist Party of Ireland formed in the 1900s to continue James Connolly's Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP) after it collapsed. It briefly became the first Communist Party of Ireland in the 1920s, until the Comintern ordered its dissolution in favour of James Larkin's Irish Worker League.

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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/

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#OnThisDay 1st January 1974: The Communist Organisation in the British Isles was formed in a split from the British and Irish Communist Organisation.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/01/01/#event-4510

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