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Scanned text reading: What is Irish Women United?

We are a group of Women's liberationists who believe that the best perspective for struggle against women's oppression in Ireland lies in an ongoing fight around the charter of demands printed here.

We came together originally in April 1975 as a few individual women interested in the idea of building a conference to discuss a charter; what its demands should be and how a campaign should be built.

At this conference on June 8th, attended by approximately 100 women, we constituted ourselves as a separate group, Irish Women United -- the only criteria for joining to be agreement on the demands of the Charter.

Irish Women United works on the basis of general meetings (discussions and action planning, at present every week in Dublin), join actions (e.g. pickets, public meetings, workshops, at present on women in trade unions, contraception, social welfare and political theory) and consciousness-raising groups.
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Two Irish general elections occurred , 6th June, in 1977 and 1997.

Here' the Socialist Party of Ireland's (SPI) Advance magazine profiling their candidate Eamonn O'Brien in 1977. The SPI went on to merge with the Democratic Socialist Party in the early 1980s, which ultimately merged with Labour in 1990. (It is not related to the current Socialist Party).

And from 1997, an analysis from Labour's Emmet Stagg in TILT of Labour's losses in that election (the party lost 16 TDs, going from 32 to 17).

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On This Day, 6th June

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Front cover of Advance, No. 25, from the Socialist Party of Ireland, with the headline: General Election 1977; O Brien, Eamonn: Your Socialist Party TD for Ballymun and North County Dublin
Extracts from an article from Labour's TILT magazine headlined: No Disaster: Emmet Stagg Puts '92/'97 in Context
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5th June 1982: March For Survival

Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marched from Parnell Square to Stephen's Green in Dublin, calling for pressure on the Irish government's position on disarmament and Irish neutrality.

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March for Survival (1982) — Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

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Published 4th June 1973:

"Performing Artists on a Flying Trapeze"

Gerry Foley on how Official Sinn Féin can build a "revolutionary party of the Irish people", from Intercontinental Press, magazine of the Fourth International (USFI).

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Performing Artists on a Flying Trapeze (1973) — Gerry Foley

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A demonstration was held , 4th June 2005, against Israel’s occupation of Palestine during a soccer World Cup qualifying match between Ireland and Israel, which was taking place in Landsdown Road stadium.

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Political Material from: Palestine Solidarity Demonstration During Ireland-Israel Soccer Match, 4th June 2005

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1st June 1979, a group of protestors began an occupation of the development at Wood Quay, as part of the campaign to preserve the historical mediaeval site from destruction. Dubbed “Operation Sitric”, after Sigtrygg Silkbeard, a Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, the occupation lasted for three weeks.

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Document Collection: Wood Quay Protests

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1st June 1984 Ronald Reagan arrived in Ireland on a state visit that was met with widespread protests.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/01/#event-6260

On This Day, 1st June

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Screenshot of part of a web page, with the headline: 1984 – Ronald Reagan arrived in Ireland on a state visit that was met with widespread protests, and showing documents about the event. (Full text and document transcriptions at the link in this post)
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28th May 1912, the Irish Labour Party was founded by James Connolly, James Larkin and William O'Brien as the political arm of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC).

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The logo of Labour: a white starry plough on a red background.
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28th May 1949, the Socialist Party of Ireland was founded.

"On May 28th, 1949, a number of workers, representing Socialist Groups in Dublin and Belfast, met in Belfast and decided that the Groups should coalesce and form the Socialist Party of Ireland. That decision was subsequently ratified by the members of the Dublin and Belfast Groups; and so was born the first political party in Ireland to publicly and unequivocally declare its object to be the establishment of Socialism."

The party was associated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) and later became the World Socialist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/28/#event-4500

On This Day, 28th May

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Image of text reading: The Socialist Party of Ireland object:

The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the whole community.
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25th May 2018, the referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment to the Irish constitution was held. The vote to remove the block on provision of abortion services was passed with 66% voting yes.

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Referendum - Repeal of the Eighth Amendment Referendum, 2018

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Front page of Left Tribune, from Labour Youth, with the headline: Where now for Labour?
Front page of Resistance from the Irish Socialist Network, with the headline: Election Shock! Tweedledum Wins
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Published 24th May 1967:

"New Student Movement Formed" – the first issue of The Irish Student, from the Irish Student Movement (ISM).

The ISM was linked to the Internationalists, later the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), and active in the late 1960s and early 1970s in various colleges and educational establishments across Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/297/

The Irish Student, No. 1 (1967) — Irish Student Movement

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🆕 Website update:

🗓️ We've added a calendar showing events occurring, demonstrations from the Snapshots of Political Action project, and documents published for each day.

Hopefully it's a useful way of finding interesting bits of left history in our database.

It's far from full, so if you come across an interesting event that's relevant or appears in materials in our collection, do please let us know and we'll add it!

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/

Calendar of Events

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A screenshot of a calendar for May from the Irish Left Archive website, with icons on several dates indicating historical events, demonstrations, documents published and subject headings occurring on that date in history.
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17th May 2002 a general election was held in Ireland, resulting in the Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrat coalition government being returned.

An article by Richard Boyd Barrett in Resistance, magazine of the Socialist Workers' Party, reflects on the performance of the left.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/4823/

Election - General Election, 2002

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A cropped section of a scanned magazine page, showing the headline "After the election: where now for the left?" and an accompanying image of Bertie Ahern getting out of a car surrounded by Gardaí and protestors.
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16th May 1920 the Knocklong Soviet was declared.

Workers at the Cleeves Creamery in Knocklong, County Limerick occupied the facility, raising a red flag and displaying a banner reading “Knocklong Soviet Creamery - We make butter, not profits”.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/05/16/#event-5766

On This Day, 16th May

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An illustration of a red flag with the text "Red Flag over Knocklong" written on it
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The Ulster Workers Council Strike of 1974 began

The Ulster Workers Council Strike began on the 15th of May 1974, having been called the day before by unionists and loyalists in opposition to the Sunningdale power sharing agreement. Continuing until the 28th of May, it resulted in the collapse of the short-lived Northern Ireland Assembly formed under that agreement.

Sunningdale

The General Strike which took place in Ulster in May 1974 resulted in the fall of the devolved Government which had held office since January 1974, and the abolition of the entire Constitutional framework which had been established by the Sunningdale Agreement of December 1973 for the functioning of devolved Government in Ulster.