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#OnThisDay 12th March 2003: "Monster Meeting" - Crumlin Anti-Bin Tax Campaign
From the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign of the early 2000s in Dublin. The campaign led to the imprisonment of Socialist Party and Irish Socialist Network members. Waste collection was subsequently privatised.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/3280/
#Ireland #Activism #Politics #BinTax
12.3.2025 20:23#OnThisDay 12th March 2003: "Monster Meeting" - Crumlin Anti-Bin Tax Campaign From the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign of the early 2000s in...New document:
A leaflet from the Belfast branch of Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) produced circa 2024 against the scapegoating of migrants for housing and cost of living issues.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7571/
#Ireland #Politics #CATU #CATUBelfast
10.3.2025 07:27New document: A leaflet from the Belfast branch of Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) produced circa 2024 against the scapegoating of...Finally, we have several copies of Women's View, which was produced throughout the 1980s by the National Women's Committee of Sinn Féin The Workers’ Party (later The Workers’ Party).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/publication/1559/
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8.3.2025 18:46Finally, we have several copies of Women's View, which was produced throughout the 1980s by the National Women's Committee of Sinn...Moving North, we have one copy of Women's Action, produced by the Belfast Women's Collective.
BWC emerged from the Socialist Women’s Group in 1977 which in turn had left the Northern Ireland Women’s Rights Movement (NIWRM).
A useful quote indicates the tensions among feminist groups in the North at that time:
Because we regarded ourselves in opposition to the British we were labelled as republican by those women’s groups who didn’t actively oppose it [the NIWRM] at the same time because we were highly critical of the Republican Movement we were labelled as a bourgeois women’s group by that section of the movement [WAI], we couldn’t win either way.
(Quoted in Loughran, C., 1986. Armagh and Feminist Strategy: Campaigns around Republican Women Prisoners in Armagh Jail. Feminist Review, (23), pp.59–79. https://doi.org/10.2307/1394720.)
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/629/
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Irishwomen United, founded in 1975, produced a journal called Banshee from 1975-77.
The back cover reproduced the group's charter, shown in this image. It is notable for an explicit demand for free, legal abortion and contraception (which was then available only with a prescription).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/publication/1893/
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On International Women's Day #IWD2025, here are some of the publications from feminist Irish groups in our collection.
First up, Fownes Street Journal, which was produced between 1972 and '74 by the Women's Liberation Movement.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2461/
The short-lived but influential Irish Women's Liberation Movement is known for events such as the Contraception Train and an appearance on The Late Late Show that reportedly descended into a shouting match with Garret FitzGerald of Fine Gael. It was renamed Women's Liberation Movement in 1972, though members also formed other groups at that time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Women%27s_Liberation_Movement
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"Why was Garland Shot?"
The Irish People, newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, #OnThisDay, 7th March 1975.
Seán Garland was shot in an INLA assassination attempt. The INLA had split from the Official IRA months previously, resulting in a violent feud.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6906/
#Ireland #Politics #History #OfficialSinnFéin #TheIrishPeople
7.3.2025 07:52"Why was Garland Shot?" The Irish People, newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, #OnThisDay, 7th March 1975. Seán Garland was shot in...New document: Red Action, Vol. 3, No. 2, August/September 1998.
From the eponymous UK organisation, Red Action, this issue dates from the period of the Good Friday Agreement.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7559/
#Ireland #Politics #History #RedAction
3.3.2025 08:46New document: Red Action, Vol. 3, No. 2, August/September 1998. From the eponymous UK organisation, Red Action, this issue dates from the...The 1981 hunger strikes began on the 1st of March, when Bobby Sands began refusing food. A total of ten people died before the strike ended in October.
Contemporary documents from the National H-Block / Armagh Committee, People's Democracy, IRSP and others are in our collection here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2692/
#OnThisDay #OTD #Ireland #Politics #History #HungerStrikes
🎙️New podcast episode!
We talk to historian Gearóid Ó Faoleán about his research into support for the Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles.
#Ireland #History #Politics #IrishPodcasts
28.2.2025 11:42🎙️New podcast episode! We talk to historian Gearóid Ó Faoleán about his research into support for the Provisional IRA in the...New document: Young Republican, Summer 1983, from Na Fianna Éireann.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7551/
#Ireland #Politics #NaFiannaÉireann #SinnFéin #YoungRepublican
24.2.2025 07:49New document: Young Republican, Summer 1983, from Na Fianna Éireann. https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7551/ #Ireland #Politics...#OnThisDay, 22nd February 2014, a rally was held at the Spire in Dublin calling for an end to the US military’s use of Shannon Airport and the release of Margaretta D’Arcy, who was imprisoned for her refusal to sign a bond committing not to enter Shannon Airport as part of the campaign.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6173/
#Ireland #Politics #History #Activism #Protest
22.2.2025 18:53#OnThisDay, 22nd February 2014, a rally was held at the Spire in Dublin calling for an end to the US military’s use of Shannon Airport and...#OnThisDay 22nd February 1992, Democratic Left was formed in a split from the Workers' Party.
Several members and six of the party’s TDs left the party and formed a new party led by Proinsias de Rossa. Initially called New Agenda, it was renamed Democratic Left at its founding conference the following month.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/02/22/#event-5651
#Ireland #Politics #History #WorkersParty #DemocraticLeft
New document: Fighting Talk, Summer 1998, from Anti-Fascist Action.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7546/
#Ireland #Politics #History #AntiFascistAction
22.2.2025 08:48New document: Fighting Talk, Summer 1998, from Anti-Fascist Action. https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7546/ #Ireland #Politics #History...#OnThisDay, 15th February 2003, 100,000 people marched in Dublin in opposition to the invasion of Iraq. The march was part of an international day of action against the war.
Leaflets distributed at the march are included in our Snapshots of Political Action project: https://www.leftarchive.ie/demonstration/6155/
Snapshots of Political Action is a joint project from the Irish Left Archive and Irish Election Literature (@electionlit@mastodon.online) collating political material and ephemera from protest actions. If you're attending a rally or protest and pick up any leaflets, we'd love to include them!
#Politics #History #Ireland #Iraq #Protest
15.2.2025 11:57#OnThisDay, 15th February 2003, 100,000 people marched in Dublin in opposition to the invasion of Iraq. The march was part of an...New document:
Unity, 13th July 2024, from the Irish Communist Party (ICP).
Unity was originally started by the Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI) and continued by the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) after its re-formation. Since 2022, it has been produced by the Irish Communist Party (ICP).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7540/
#Ireland #Politics #IrishCommunistParty #Unity
10.2.2025 08:23New document: Unity, 13th July 2024, from the Irish Communist Party (ICP). Unity was originally started by the Communist Party of Northern...New document:
The Dawn of Anarchism, from the Irish Anarchist Network, 2024 (@IrishAnarchistNetwork@kolektiva.social).
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/7534/
#Ireland #Politics #Anarchism #IrishAnarchistNetwork
3.2.2025 08:01New document: The Dawn of Anarchism, from the Irish Anarchist Network, 2024 (@IrishAnarchistNetwork@kolektiva.social)....The Cork Communist Organisation was formed #OnThisDay, 31st of January 1971, after resigning from the Irish Communist Organisation in response to their position on Republicanism. It later became the Cork Workers Club.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/01/31/#event-4512
#Ireland #Politics #History #CorkCommunistOrganisation
🎙️ New podcast episode!
We talk to Niall McGuirk about the Hope Collective, his involvement in playing and organising gigs, creating fanzines, the development of Hope Collective, the D.I.Y. philosophy and values underpinning it, and the community that it generated.
https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/niall-mcguirk-hope-collective
30.1.2025 13:50🎙️ New podcast episode! We talk to Niall McGuirk about the Hope Collective, his involvement in playing and organising gigs, creating...Bloody Sunday took place 53 years ago #OnThisDay, 30th of January 1972 in Derry.
British soldiers shot 26 people during a civil rights march resulting in 14 deaths.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/01/30/#event-4800
#BloodySunday #Ireland #History #Politics
30.1.2025 07:47Bloody Sunday took place 53 years ago #OnThisDay, 30th of January 1972 in Derry. British soldiers shot 26 people during a civil rights march...