Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 30th January 1972, Bloody Sunday in Derry -- British soldiers shot 26 people during a civil rights march in Derry, resulting in 14 deaths.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/01/30/#event-4800

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Published #OnThisDay 23rd January 1976:

The Bottom Dog, The working class paper of North Munster.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/530/

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#OnThisDay 23rd January 1973:

"Giving Irish Trotskyism a Bad Name"

A letter from the Belfast branch of the Revolutionary Marxist Group to the rest of the organisation over a proposal to change the name from ‘Revolutionary’ to ‘Republican Marxist Group’.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3161/

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Published #OnThisDay 22nd January 1973:

"Official Republicans Meet in Dublin: A Step Forward for the Irish Vanguard"

Gerry Foley on the Official Republican Convention in 1972. From Intercontinental Press, the magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3237/

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Published #OnThisDay 21st January 1991:

"Towards a Peaceful Ireland", from Republican Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2423/

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Published #OnThisDay 18th January 1975:

"The End of the Ceasefire"

Workers' Weekly, from the Workers' Association (part of the British and Irish Communist Organisation), on the short IRA ceasefire in 1974/75.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/347/

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#OnThisDay, 17th January 1971:

A press release from Sinn Féin announcing their new Social & Economic Programme.

This is effectively a draft of the Éire Nua policy, which was supported by Sinn Féin into the 1980s, and continued to be supported by Republican Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1876/

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Published #OnThisDay 11th January 1995:

Northern Ireland Report, No. 21

Northern Ireland Report was published by an ad hoc group of individuals in the United States who, while close to Sinn Féin, were critical of it, and particularly so during the developing Peace Process. Their position would have been strongly left of centre. One aspect of their goal was to produce a publication which was different from the more conservative leaning publications issued in the US which were sympathetic to Irish republicanism.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3290/

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Published #OnThisDay 4th January 1975:

"The Ceasefire"

Workers' Weekly, from the Workers' Association (British & Irish Communist Organisation) on the then recent IRA ceasefire.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/324/

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#OnThisDay 1st January 1974: The Communist Organisation in the British Isles was formed in a split from the British and Irish Communist Organisation.

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

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