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The British Left on Ireland.
A collection of documents from British parties and groups on Ireland, from across Labour, communist, Trotskyist, Maoist, and other left traditions.
Published #OnThisDay, 19th December 1985:
Marxist-Leninist Weekly marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of The Internationalists, forerunner of the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
New document:
Notes & Comments, Internal Newsletter of The Workers Party, August 1985
#OnThisDay 13th December 1970, the Socialist Party of Ireland was formed.
New document:
"Don’t Let the Council Bully You", Harolds Cross – Dublin 6 – Terenure Against the Bin Tax.
From the anti-bin tax campaign in Dublin in the early 2000s.
#OnThisDay, the 8th of December 1974, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) was formed at a meeting in Dublin by former members of Official Sinn Féin.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/12/08/#event-5521
Published #OnThisDay 5th December 1984:
Voice of Revolution (Marxist-Leninist Weekly), Vol. 8, No. 30
From the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
Published #OnThisDay, The Bottom Dog, Vol. 3, No. 53, The working class paper of North Munster
#OnThisDay 3rd of December 1988, the Irish Anti-Extradition Committee held a march and rally in opposition to the extradition of prisoners to Britain.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6150/
From Snapshots of Political Action, a joint project with Irish Election Literature
#OTD #Ireland #Politics #History #Extradition #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #Activism #Protest
New document:
The Story of the Limerick Soviet: The 1919 General Strikes against British Militarism, by D. R. O'Connor Lysaght (1981, 2nd edition).
New document:
"Election Interventions—Historical & Contemporary" (Republican Lecture Series, Number 6), from the Sinn Féin Education Department, circa 1982.
New document:
The Good Friday Agreement: Capitalism, Poverty, Imperialism And The Police State
From Lasair Dhearg, 2023.
From 1931, the draft constitution and rules of Saor Éire: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6252/
Saor Éire was a left Republican and communist organisation founded by members of the IRA in 1931 as “an organisation of workers and working farmers”.
It was banned by Military Tribunal, along with other Republican and Communist groups, in October 1931. (The ban was lifted the following March).
With the strength of reaction, the organisation never really got off the ground.
New document:
The Coffee Circle Papers: Paper 5 – Economic Growth: Who Needs It?
From a series of papers produced by Democratic Left in 1998 prior to merging with Labour.
#OnThisDay 2nd of November 1986, Republican Sinn Féin was formed by members of Sinn Féín opposed to removing the policy of abstention from Leinster House, which had been passed by a vote at the Ard Fheis.
They were led by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, who was elected President and remained in that role until 2009.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/11/02/#event-5541
New document:
Socialist View, No. 10, Spring 2003.
Published by the Socialist Party.
Published #OnThisDay, 24th October 1972:
The first issue of Rosc Catha, newspaper of Clann na hÉireann, the Sinn Féin support group in Britain.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1865/
#Ireland #Politics #History #OTD #ClannNahÉireann RoscCatha
New document:
Advance, November—December 1976.
Advance was published by the Socialist Party of Ireland (SPI) in the 1970s.
The SPI went on to form the Democratic Socialist Party in 1982, along with the Limerick Socialist Organisation.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7420/
#Ireland #Politics #History #SocialistPartyOfIreland #Advance
Published #OnThisDay 20th October 1979:
"IRA Okay! Lynch Up The Poll"
An Phoblacht Republican News, newspaper of Sinn Féin.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6227/
#Ireland #Politics #History #OTD #SinnFéin #AnPhoblacht #RepublicanNews
New document:
"The Coffee Circle Papers: Postscript - Times Change"
The Coffee Circle Papers were a series of discussion papers in Democratic Left in 1998/99. This postscript was written by Rosheen Callender after their 1999 merger with Labour.