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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[>
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[>
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
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#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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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[>
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 .
The Hillsborough Agreement: The text of the Bobby Sands Commemorative lecture given by Danny Morrison in Twinbrook, Belfast #OnThisDay Sunday 4th May 1986.
The Hillsborough Agreement (1986) — Sinn Féin
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#OnThisDay, 3rd May 1979, elections to Westminster were held. Here's the SDLP manifesto from that election:
SDLP Election Manifesto, Westminster Election, 1979 (1979) — Social Democratic and Labour Party
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Published #OnThisDay 2nd May 1987:
Marxist Leninist Weekly, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).
Marxist-Leninist Weekly, Vol 17, No. 5 (1987) — Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
Irish Left Archive[>
New document:
Dawn, No. 104.
Dawn – An Irish Magazine on Nonviolent Action, Civil Liberties and Movements for Change – was produced in the 1980s.
Dawn
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Nicanews, February 1995.
Produced by the Irish Nicaragua Support Group
Nicanews, February 1995 (1995) — Irish Nicaragua Support Group
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New document:
The Clann, 29th February 1948.
Newspaper of Clann na Poblachta. This edition comes just after CnaP joined the first inter-party government after the 1948 election.
The Clann, 29th February 1948 (1948) — Clann na Poblachta
Irish Left Archive[>
Published #OnThisDay, 1st April 1972:
"Military Dictatorship in Northern Ireland" – Freedom, Anarchist Weekly.
Freedom, Vol. 33, No. 14 (1972) — Freedom Press
Irish Left Archive[>
New document:
"Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks!"
From the Dublin Spartacist Group, August 1997.
Down With Racist Anti-Traveller Attacks! (1997) — Dublin Spartacist Group
Irish Left Archive[>
Published #OnThisDay, 29th March 1974:
Comment, newspaper of the British & Irish Communist Organisation (BICO) – "For the working class – the class that holds the future in its hands".
Comment, Vol. 3, No. 4 (1974) — British and Irish Communist Organisation
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#OnThisDay 29th March 1975, The Non-Stop Connolly Show, a 24-hour play dramatising the life of James Connolly by Margaretta D’Arcy and John Arden, was first performed.
The Non-Stop Connolly Show - Liberty Hall / Easter Week 1975 (1975)
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SIPTU Fightback, No. 7 (1998)
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Published #OnThisDay 19th March 1976:
The Bottom Dog, Vol. 3, No. 60.
The Bottom Dog was a Limerick-based newspaper, published from 1975 and subtitled “the working class paper of North Munster”.
The Bottom Dog, Vol. 3, No. 60 (1976)
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