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#OnThisDay 1st of March 1981, hunger strikes began when Bobby Sands started refusing food. A total of ten people died before the strike ended in October.

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On This Day, 1st March

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Screen capture of part of a web page, reading:

The 1981 hunger strikes began on the 1st of March, when Bobby Sands began refusing food. A total of ten people died before the strike ended in October.

A February 1981 document from the National H-Block / Armagh Committee states:

"On Thursday 5th February seven weeks after the ending of a fifty-three day hunger-strike in the H-Blocks at Long Kesh, and a nineteen day hunger-strike by women prisoners at Armagh prison, a joint statement from both sets of prisoners was issued announcing another hunger-strike to begin on March 1st. The statement threatened that the prisoners would strike 'to death if necessary' to achieve recognition as political prisoners and a status in accord with that recognition.

The prisoners' statement ended weeks of speculation that a settlement to the four-and-a-half-year-long protest was possible and confirmed for the prisoners and their supporters that the British reneged on the hunger-strike settlements of December 18th last."

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New document:

British and Irish ‘Communist’ Organisation – Trotskyite Thugs, Sham Marxist-Leninists and Agents of British Imperialism

Seas le fíor-dhearcadh réábhlóide na hÉireann! Seas le Marxachas-Lenineachas-Smaoineamh Mao Tsetung!

Differentiate between sham and genuine Marxism-Leninism to unite the revolutionary forces and defeat the enemy

From the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), 1977.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6318/

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British and Irish ‘Communist’ Organisation – Trotskyite Thugs, Sham Marxist-Leninists and Agents of British Imperialism (1977) — Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)

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The Labour Party: Northern Policy Statement

Adopted by their annual conference #OnThisDay 26th February 1972.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1527/

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Northern Policy Statement (1972) — Labour

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Policy documents from the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), early 1980s.

The DSP was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Socialist Party of Ireland (SPI), Jim Kemmy's Limerick Socialist Organisation and individuals including members of the British & Irish Communist Organisation (BICO).

The DSP was the Left of Labour, and strongly anti-Nationalist. (The constituent groups had previously co-operated in Socialists Against Nationalism).

The party ultimately merged with Labour in 1990.

You can see them in our Timeline of the Irish Left here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/page/timeline-of-the-irish-left/#find-DSP

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Timeline of the Irish Left

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Front cover of DSP Outline Poiicy on Church and State

Front cover of DSP Outline Poiicy on Full Employment

Front cover of DSP Outline Poiicy on Northern Ireland

Front cover of DSP Outline Poiicy on Taxation

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From 1978, Women's Action, published by the Belfast Women's Collective.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/629/

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Women's Action, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1978) — Belfast Women's Collective

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A list of pubs to boycott who wouldn't serve women, from 1976.

Taken from Banshee, magazine of Irish Women United.

The practice of refusing to serve women in some bars didn't end completely until the late 1990s.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/2728/?page=15

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View Document: Banshee, Vol. 1, No. 2 - Irish Women United

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Scanned magazine clipping, reading:

MORE PUBS TO BOYCOTT

DOLLYMOUNT INN, Dollymount — Women not served a all

BLACK SHEEP, Coolock — Women not served at all

FAGAN'S BAR, Upr. Drumcondra Rd. — No Pints served to women in Lounge and Bar exclusive to males

— AND A CHIPPER ...

For the dubious pleasure of parting with 20p for a single and 15p for a portion of beans after 9 p.m. at DI MASCIOS in MARLBOROUGH STREET, you'll have to have a male in tow.

Dogs and pushcars are not allowed at any time and after 9 p.m. the axe falls on “unaccompanied ladies”.

Are they afraid we'll attack the long ray!

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Also added to the timeline: https://www.leftarchive.ie/page/timeline-of-the-irish-left/#find-IAN2022

We try to keep the Timeline of the Irish Left up to date, so if you know of an organisation that's missing or spot any errors, please let us know!

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Timeline of the Irish Left

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From Nov.1977, the constitution of the Socialist Labour Party.

The SLP was led by Matt Merrigan and Noël Browne, formerly of Labour.

The Socialist Workers Movement, Irish Workers Group, and Movement for a Socialist Republic all joined as tendencies.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1576/

The SLP continued until 1982, when it was dissolved.

For a great overview of the party, they are covered in this episode of "The Others" podcast (from @electionlit@mastodon.online):

https://anchor.fm/alan-kinsella/episodes/The-Socialist-Labour-Party--Episode-56-e13tpkq

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From the first issue of Socialist Republic in 1988, an interview with the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO).

Published by the Socialist Republican Collective, the political arm of the IPLO, which split from the INLA in 1986.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/565/?page=6

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View Document: Socialist Republican, Vol. 1, No. 1 - Socialist Republican Collective

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Scan of an interview with I.P.L.O. from Socialist Republican, No. 1, 1988.

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New document:

"Press Poisoners in Ireland" and other articles by James Connolly.

A pamphlet produced by the British & Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), including an introduction from BICO. From May 1972.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6306/

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Press Poisoners in Ireland and Other Articles (1972) — British and Irish Communist Organisation

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The Socialist Party is a name that has been used at different times by unrelated groups in Ireland, from the early 20th Century to the present, and from a number of strands of the left.

Here's a thread on the various Socialist Parties in Ireland

1/6

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Front cover of a book, with the text: Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Ireland, With Declaration of Principles; Price 6d.

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New organisation:

Cork Anarchist Workers' Group: formed in 1984, and became part of the Workers' Solidarity Movement (WSM) when it was founded later that year.

Our Timeline of the Irish Left is regularly updated. If you find an omission or error, please let us know!

https://www.leftarchive.ie/page/timeline-of-the-irish-left/#find-CAWG

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Timeline of the Irish Left

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A cross section of a timeline diagram showing organisations on the Irish left. Cork Anarchist Workers' Group is highlighted and its merger with the Workers Solidarity Movement is indicated by a diagonal line

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Published #OnThisDay 11th February 1992:

Northern Ireland Report

Northern Ireland Report was published by an ad hoc group of individuals in the United States. While supportive of Sinn Féin, it sought to provide a left wing publication in the context of the conservative-leaning U.S. support for Irish Republicanism.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1198/

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Northern Ireland Report, No. 2 (1992)

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"Socialist Workers Movement 1971-1977"

An outline of the history of the Socialist Workers Movement, and their decision to join the Socialist Labour Party (forming the Socialist Workers Tendency).

From Socialist Worker Review, No. 1, 1978.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/3931/?page=19

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View Document: Socialist Worker Review, No. 1 - Socialist Workers' Tendency

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Scanned article headlined: Socialist Workers Movement 1971-1977 -- John Goodwillie details the origins and political traditions of the tendency members who publish Socialist Worker Review.

Scanned text reading: For many of those who have been in the Labour party or in the Republican movement, the members of small left-wing groups have been seen, by definition, to be either mad or incurably sectarian, or both. In looking at the background and development of the Socialist Workers' Movement over the years, this article aims to show that its traditions and politics are neither mad nor sectarian. It also aims to explain the entry into the Socialist Labour Party of S.W.M. members.

Scanned text reading: To co-ordinate the activities within the SLP of those who feel an affinity with the politics that S.W.M. defended in the past, the Socialist Workers Tendency has been formed. The tendency is not a party within a party: it will not force its members to act monolithically without regard to their own views. It simply is a grouping of like-minded people who wish to exercise an influence within the Party for direct action and against the road of parliamentary careerism. The basis of its politics can be summarised in one quotation from Karl Marx:

The emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers alone.

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"No Pasaran!"

The Story of the Irish Volunteers who served with the International Brigades in defending the Spanish Republic against International Fascism 1936-1938.

Published by Official Sinn Féin, 1975.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4469/

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No Pasaran! (1975) — Republican Clubs

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#OnThisDay 9th February 2019, a rally in support of strike action by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) took place outside Leinster House.

Leaflets distributed at the rally: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6177/

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