Irish Left Archive

#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

Last year, #OnThisDay 18th June, a cost of living crisis rally was held in Dublin.

Material distributed included leaflets from Militant Left, People Before Profit, the Socialist Party, and the Irish branch of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6047/

#OTD #IrishPolitics #Protest #Activism #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction #MilitantLeft #PeopleBeforeProfit #SocialistParty #KKE

New document:

Socialist View, No. 8, Spring 2001, from the Socialist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6465/

#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #SocialistParty #SocialistView

New document:

Militant, No. 247.

The final issue of Militant, as they transitioned to The Socialist Party in 1996.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6407/

#IrishLeft #Militant #SocialistParty

#OnThisDay 19th April 2003, a demonstration was held to oppose the invasion of Iraq and the US military’s use of Shannon Airport in Newbridge, Kildare.

Documents distributed by County Kildare Anti-War Group, Socialist Party and Socialist Workers' Party are collected here as part of the #SnapshotsOfPoliticalAction project: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6108/

#OTD #SocialistParty #SocialistWorkersParty #Iraq #Shannon #AntiWar

New document:

The Socialist, No. 137, 26 November 1999. Newspaper of the Socialist Party (England & Wales).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6392/

#IrishLeftArchive #SocialistParty #SPEW #TheSocialist #CWI

New document:

"Do We Need A Political Revolution?"

Poster for a public rally in 2015 from the Anti-Austerity Alliance.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6362/

#IrishLeftArchive #AntiAusterityAlliance #SocialistParty #Solidarity #IrishPolitics

#OnThisDay 12th March 2003, a letter from Joan Collins of the Crumlin Anti-Bin Tax Campaign.

Collins, then a Socialist Party member, was elected to the local council the following year. She is now a T.D. for Right To Change.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3280/

#IrishLeftArchive #OTD #SocialistParty #RightToChange #AntiBinTaxCampaign

The contemporary Socialist Party was formed in 1996.

It arose from the Trotskyist Militant tendency in Labour and the Labour and Trade Union Group in the North, which were associated with Militant in Britain and the Committee for a Workers International (CWI).

Its members are part of Solidarity, and it is affiliated with International Socialist Alternative (ISA) since the latter formed from divisions in the CWI.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/organisation/248/

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#SocialistParty #Militant #Solidarity #ISA #CWI #Trotskyism

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

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