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New document: Rebel, No. 54, July 1982, from Revolutionary Struggle.
New document:
Red Patriot, Vol. 2, No. 16, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), December 1970.
New document:
A circular from The Workers' Party on their Constituency Education Programme, 4th May 1988.
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.
New document:
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/
#Ireland #Politics #History #OfficialSinnFéin #TheIrishPeople
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/
#Ireland #Politics #History #SocialistParty #SocialistYouth #CWI
From 1975, the Starry Plough, newspaper of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), on the execution of five members of ETA and FRAP under Franco's fascist dictatorship.
The article highlights Irish solidarity action and draws parallels with Irish Republicanism.
It also notes the potential for several more executions, though thankfully they didn't take place and Franco died two months later.
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:
"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.
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:
"Election Special: O'Devaney Gardens – A Litany of Lies", from the Campaign for Public Housing, 2020.
Irish Election Literature's collection of election leaflets from #ge24
https://irishelectionliterature.com/2024/10/22/index-of-2024-general-election-leaflets/
Leaflets distributed at the Raise the Roof housing march #OnThisDay 26th of November 2022.
From Militant Left, People Before Profit, The Workers' Party, United Against Racism, and Éirígí.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6199/
Part of the Snapshots of Political Action project from Irish Election Literature and the Irish Left Archive, documenting protest and activism in Ireland.
#Ireland #Politics #Housing #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #Activism #OTD
New document:
The Story of the Limerick Soviet: The 1919 General Strikes against British Militarism, by D. R. O'Connor Lysaght (1981, 2nd edition).
#OnThisDay, 24th of November 1982, Nan Joyce became the first Traveller to stand in an Irish election.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/11/24/#event-5712
For people in or near Dublin: Rally for Unity & Hope, Saturday 23rd of November, 1pm.
New document:
"Election Interventions—Historical & Contemporary" (Republican Lecture Series, Number 6), from the Sinn Féin Education Department, circa 1982.