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Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli

An outline of early '80s Travellers' Rights groups and the first Traveller candidate in a general election, Nan Joyce.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/

Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli

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The Communist Organisation in the British Isles was formed , 1st of January 1974, in a split from the British and Irish Communist Organisation.

The foundation is outlined in the first issue of their journal, The Proletarian.

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

On This Day, 1st January

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Scanned text, reading:

What is the Communist Organisation in the British Isles?

The Communist Organisation in the British Isles was formed on 1 January 1974, in secession from the British and Irish Communist Organisation, now become revisionist.

The Communist Organisation

The Communist Organisation in the British Isles is a Marxist-Leninist collective. Its purpose is to think communist and to act communist, to create communists
and to elaborate communist practice in the working class of the British Isles. The Communist Organisation affirms its total commitment to the science of Marxism Leninism, the unity of communist theory and practice, the dictatorship of the proletariat and the hegemony of the proletarian world-outlook.
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The Irish People, Vol. 1, No. 2

The second issue of the newspaper from Official Sinn Féin and later The Workers' Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7495/

The Irish People, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1973) — Sinn Féin [Official]

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New document:

A leaflet for a Socialist Youth Forum in April 2001, from the Socialist Party youth wing, with talks on "The Life and Ideas of Che Guevara" and "What way forward for the Peace Process?"

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7493/

Socialist Youth Forum (2001) — Socialist Youth

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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.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/collection/2835/

Document Collection: The British Left on Ireland

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Published , 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).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1567/

Marxist-Leninist Weekly, 19th December 1985 (1985) — Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)

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Comrades,

As this is the first National Congress of our party, it is the duty of the inaugural Central Committee to put on record the circumstances which gave rise to the founding of the party, and to report on its development and activity since that time.

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The Socialist Party of Ireland was formed in Dublin on the 13th of December 1970.

The founding members appointed a Central Committee, which drew up a manifesto and a constitution. The manifesto announcing the formation of the party was published on the 19th January 1971.
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"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.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7474/

Don’t Let the Council Bully You (2002 c.)

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, 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

On This Day, 8th December

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The first issue of The Starry Plough announces the formation of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. April, 1975
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Published 5th December 1984:

Voice of Revolution (Marxist-Leninist Weekly), Vol. 8, No. 30

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

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2999/

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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

Political Material from: Anti-Extradition March & Rally, 3rd December 1988

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New document:

The Story of the Limerick Soviet: The 1919 General Strikes against British Militarism, by D. R. O'Connor Lysaght (1981, 2nd edition).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7459/

The Story of the Limerick Soviet (1981) — D. R. O'Connor Lysaght

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New document:

"Election Interventions—Historical & Contemporary" (Republican Lecture Series, Number 6), from the Sinn Féin Education Department, circa 1982.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7446/

Election Interventions—Historical & Contemporary (1982 c.) — Sinn Féin

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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.

Saor Éire: Draft Constitution and Rules (1931) — Saor Éire [1931]

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A newspaper clipping, reading: 

The following associations have been declared by order of the Executive Council to be unlawful associations :—

* Saor Eire.
* The association styling and calling itself the Irish Republican Army, sometimes known as the I.R.A. or Oglaigh na hEireann.
* Fianna Eireann.
* Cumann na mBan.
* Friends of Soviet Russia.
* The Irish Labour Defence League.
* The Workers' Defence Corps.
* The Women Prisoners’ Defence League.
* The Workers’ Revolutionary Party (Ireland).
* The Irish Tribute League.
* The lrish Working Farmers’ Committee.
* The Workers’ Research Bureau.