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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

"Socialists, Republicanism and the Armed Struggle"

A pamphlet by Kieran Allen for the Socialist Workers' Movement, 1991.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/296/

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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.

#IrishHistory #HungerStrikes #Republicanism #OTD

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/#event-5715

"Ireland: Background to What Is Happening To-Day"

From Official Sinn Féin, an overview of the situation in Ireland and position of the Republican movement.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4795/

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For a Republican, All-Islands, Internationalism From Below Coalition

A series of articles from Allan Armstrong of Republican Communist Forum (@rcfscotland@mastodon.scot).

https://republicancommunist.org/blog/2022/03/25/21248/

Allan Armstrong has written reviews of three books which address the political situation Socialists face, first of all in Ireland. He has extended this to Scotland, Wales and England, and their position in a world of competing imperialisms. The purpose in doing this is to build the case for a Republican, all-islands, ‘internationalism from below’ coalition to challenge the UK state and its imperial allies.

#Republicanism #RepublicanCommunistForum #IrishPolitics

New podcast episode!

We talk to Éirígí activist Mickey Moran about his experience of campaigning and organising on the left, his perspective on Republicanism and the development of his politics.

You can follow the podcast directly @ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ie for updates, as well as subscribe to the feed in the usual apps. Thanks to Mickey for taking the time to talk to us!

https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/mickey-moran-eirigi

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in our January activist interview for the Irish Left Archive Podcast, we spoke to left activist, Vincent Doherty.

We discuss his politicisation growing up in Derry; his role in the Derry Republican movement and perspective on the Officials and the divisions which led to the formation of the IRSP; his work with the IMG and Troops Out Movement in England; joining Peoples' Democracy and his central role in the H-Blocks campaign during the 1981 hunger strikes; his move towards Sinn Féin and the influence of People’s Democracy; and his perspective on the contemporary left in Ireland.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/44-vincent-doherty-offical-sinn-fein-international-marxist/

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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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We finished our Spring episodes with a discussion of the book, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary, by Robert White, looking at the history of Ó Brádaigh, Republican Sinn Féin and the issues raised by the book with friend of the podcast, Charles Tuba.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/podcast/38-ruairi%CC%81-o%CC%81-bra%CC%81daigh-the-life-and-politics-of-an-irish/

#Republicanism #RepublicanSinnFéin #IrishLeftArchive #Podcast