Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 7th September 1983 a referendum was held to add a "right to life of the unborn" to the Irish Constitution, legally blocking all abortion.

After decades of pro-choice campaigning, the amendment was repealed in 2018.

Here are some documents from the 1983 campaign: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2639/

#Ireland #Abortion #RepealTheEighth #Repealed #OTD

Published #OnThisDay 6th September 1974:

"British Spies Still at Work" "Cork Dockers Consider Action against Beef Fleet"

The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/276/

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OfficialSinnFéin #TheIrishPeople

Published #OnThisDay 5th September 1984:

Voice of Revolution, Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/517/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #CPIML #VoiceOfRevolution #Maoism

Published #OnThisDay 5th September 1981:

Armagh/H-Block News, from the Armagh/H-Block Action Group, associated with the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/5819/

#OTD #HungerStrikes #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #CPIML

Published #OnThisDay, 5th September 1975:

The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2967/

#OTD #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OfficialSinnFéin #TheIrishPeople

#OnThisDay, 1st September 2001, the founding conference of Socialist Youth, the youth section of the Socialist Party, took place.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/09/01/#event-5739

#OTD #IrishPolitics #SocialistYouth #SocialistParty #CWI

Published #OnThisDay 27th August 1974:

"An Analysis of the Significance of the Ulster Workers’ Strike, May 14th-30th, 1974. A Series of Articles from RED PATRIOT Editorial Staff"

Published by the "Necessity for Change Institute of Anti-Imperialist Studies", the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1822/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #UlsterWorkersCouncilStrike #CPIML #Maoism

Published #OnThisDay 25th August 1969:

Barricades Bulletin, Special Edition.

"No Peace Until Unionism is Smashed"

Barricades Bulletin was produces by the Derry Labour Party Young Socialists in August and September of 1969, during which Free Derry was barricaded to prevent British troops and B-Specials entering the area after the Battle of the Bogside.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/423/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #FreeDerry #DerryLabourParty #Bogside

Published #OnThisDay 22nd August 1975:

The Irish People, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2852/

#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OfficialSinnFéin #IrishPeople

#OnThisDay 21st of August 1984, a group of partners and children of striking miners visited Tallaght during the miners’ strike in Britain. The week-long trip was organised by the Tallaght Committee to Support Mine Workers, to give striking workers’ families a holiday.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/08/21/#event-5760

#OTD #History #MinersStrike #NUM

Published #OnThisDay 15th August 1969, a statement from the IRA in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of the Bogside.

It calls for the disarming of the B Specials, withdrawal of British Troops and a UN-supervised all-Ireland election. It also rejects calls from some for the suspension of Stormont and introduction of direct Westminster rule.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1606/

#Ireland #History #Politics #TheTroubles #IRA #Republicanism

Published #OnThisDay 14th August 1971:

Drithleog – Nuachtlitir, Comhairle Ceantair Átha Cliath, Sinn Féin

A newsletter from the Dublin region of Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3992/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Drithleog #OfficialSinnFéin

#OnThisDay 9th August 1971, internment without trial was introduced in the North.

Aimed at weakening the IRA, an immediate wave of 342 arrests was made, many on little or no evidence.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/08/09/#event-5734

#OTD #Internment #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics

Published #OnThisDay 8th August 1972:

Nuacht Náisiúnta, from Official Sinn Féin.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/275/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #NuachtNáisiúnta #OfficialSinnFéin

#OnThisDay 8th August 2018:

An occupation in Summerhill called for local council purchases of empty buildings, public housing on public land, tenant rights and rent controls.

Material from the occupation: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6131/

#Ireland #Housing #Occupation #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction

Published #OnThisDay 6th August 1976:

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

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/410/

#OTD #Ireland #History #Politics #BottomDog #Limerick

Published #OnThisDay 3rd August 1987:

"No to any form of devolution, no to any resurrection of Stormont!"

"Release the Birmingham six!"

Spirit of Freedom, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/310/

#Ireland #Politics #CPIML #SpiritOfFreedom #Maoism

Published #OnThisDay 1st August 1982:

"Demonstrate Against British Imperialism! Remember Ireland's heroic martyrs!"

"Long Live the Palestinian Resistance! Down with the fascist aggression and genocide of U.S.–backed Israeli Zionism against the Lebanese and Palestinian People!"

Red Patriot / An Tírghráthóir Dearg, from the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/378/

#Ireland #Politics #History #CPIML #RedPatriot #Maoism #Communism

Published #OnThisDay 21st July 1975:

"The Need to End the Feud Between 'Officials' and IRSP", An Interview with Seamus Costello.

By Gerry Foley in Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/563/

#OTD #IntercontinentalPress #FourthInternational #USFI #IRSP #OfficialSinnFéin #SeamusCostello

#OnThisDay 19th of July 1984, the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began when Mary Manning refused to handle fruit imported from South Africa in protest against apartheid, following a decision taken by IDATU members the previous day.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/07/19/#event-5717

#IrishHistory #SouthAfrica #DunnesStrike #Apartheid #OTD #IDATU