Left Archive & Index
To access the index please scroll beneath the following Introduction…
Some four years ago the Cedar Lounge Revolution decided to initiate and host the Irish Left Online Document Archive. This was intended to be an online archive of materials relating to the Irish left with documents, leaflets, pamphlets, posters and newspapers from the latter half of the 20th century placed online in PDF format, freely accessible and easily downloadable and reproducible for those who are interested.
Over those four years the scope of the Archive has grown considerably and now includes at least some sample materials from the major political formations on the island. However, large gaps still remain both chronologically and in terms of individual groups or formations.
The rationale for the Archive is quite straightforward. Firstly it’s a good way for developing an informal but reasonably comprehensive history of the Irish left.
But perhaps most importantly this is intended as a general historical resource open to all irrespective of political position. No judgement is made, beyond points regarding quality of production, on these documents in the accompanying texts.
Obviously copyright resides with those who produced these documents. To date we have had no queries or complaints about materials posted here. In some respects this is unsurprising, although not all were intended for a broad readership most were.
The Archive hopes to encompass materials from all on the left including those from Socialist, Social Democrat, Green, Marxist, Republican, Anarchist, Feminists, Trade Unions, campaigning groups, left and progressive Unionist voices and other groups on the island of Ireland, or with connections to Irish politics (for examples there are formations in the UK which are linked to Irish parties). But interesting or progressive noises from Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil are also of interest. Further areas include reflections upon the Irish left from organisations of the left and other ideological positions both in Ireland and outside of Ireland [for example there is a particularly interesting document in the Archive below from the UK based unionist lobby group 'Friends of the Union' from the 1980s]. There is no particular time span.
So we’d like to hear from anyone who is interested in contributing to this project. You can contact us c/o worldbystorm [AT] eircom.net
Irish Left Online Document Archive
This is organised alphabetically by organisation and chronologically by document. We are considering breaking it into two sections, one for organisations on the island of Ireland and one for left organisations outside of Ireland who have produced documents on Ireland. For the moment those latter documents are indicated by the name of the state they are produced in in brackets beside the party/group name.
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Ainriail – A Belfast Anarchist Bi-Monthly (1980s)
Ainriail – A Belfast Anarchist Bi-Monthly – Jan/Feb 1987
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Ainriail – A Belfast Anarchist Bi-Monthly (1990s – Frontline Collective)
Ainriail No.6: An Irish Anarchist Bi-monthly Oct/Nov 1996
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Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union
Is there a Third Way – new political strategies for the Millennium, ATGWU, 2000
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Anarchist Workers Alliance
The Irish Left Archive: Anarchist Worker from the Anarchist Workers Alliance, October/November 1979
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Anti-Fascist Action [Ireland]
No Quarter – Ireland’s Anti-Fascist Magazine, Issue 2, 2005
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Aubane Historical Society
“Irish Political Review”, No.1, 1986
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The Bottom Dog: Working Class Paper of North Munster
The Bottom Dog: The Working Class Paper of North Munster – Vol 3, No. 53, Dec 1975
The Bottom Dog: The Working Class Paper of North Munster – August 6th, 1976
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Brighton Women and Ireland Group
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British and Irish Communist Organisation
British and Irish Communist Organisation… The Irish Communist from 1973.
Workers Weekly,Workers Association, British and Irish Communist Organisation, July 1974
Workers Weekly, Workers Association, British and Irish Communist Organisation, January 1975
The Communist, Number 88, July 1975 from The British and Irish Communist Organisation in Britain
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Big Flame [UK]
Ireland – Rising in the North, Big Flame, 1975
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Black and Red Press [Detroit]
The Counter-Revolution in Ireland, Van der Straeten and Daufouy, Pamphlet, Black and Red Press, 1974
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British Labour Party
Northern Ireland: Statement by the National Executive Committee to the 1981 Conference (British Labour Party).
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British Labour Party Young Socialist
Labour Party Young Socialists (UK), c. 1974.
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Campaigns
Abortion: A Choice for Irish Women – Irish Women’s Right to Choose Group – 1981
No Hanging Here: The case of Marie and Noel Murray, Murray Defence Committee, c.1976/7
Dawn Magazine, Dawn Group – Issue 100, 1984
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Campaign for Equal Citizenship
Additional information on the Campaign for Equal Citizenship
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Central Citizens’ Defence Committee (Belfast) 1970
Law (?) and Orders: The Belfast ‘Curfew’ of 3-5 July 1970, Central Citizens’ Defence Committee
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Class War (Ireland)
Class War, Issue 1, May 1994, Class War [Ireland]
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Communist Organisation in the British Isles
Journal of the Communist Organisation in the British Isles – No.1 c. 1974
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Communist Party of Britain (UK)
The Irish Left Archive: Ireland One Nation, Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), 1974
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Communist Party of Great Britain (UK)
Marxism Today, Communist Party of Great Britain, Special Irish Number, June 1973 – Part 1
Marxism Today, Communist Party of Great Britain, Special Irish Number, June 1973 – Part 2
Resistance No. 3, Irish Republican Support Group (Communist Party of Great Britain), 1986 [Please note this was not an official CPGB document]
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Communist Party of Great Britain (UK) – The Leninist grouping
The Leninist – Ireland: Thatcher’s Vietnam [Supplement] c. Winter 1985/Spring 1986
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Communist Party of Ireland
Irish Socialist, from the Communist Party of Ireland, April 1970
The Irish Left Archive: Irish Socialist, Communist Party of Ireland, June 1970
Left Archive: Connolly Youth Movement, Manifesto and Policies, [Communist Party of Ireland] 1970
“Forward” with the Connolly Youth Movement circa 1972
Ireland – Battlefront for Democracy, R. Palme Dutt, 1974, CPI
The Communist Party of Ireland and the “Irish Socialist” from the late 1980s
”Armed Struggle: An Open Letter to PIRA”, the Communist Party of Ireland, 1988
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Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist Leninist)/The Internationalists
‘Words’ from the Trinity Internationalists (later the CPI(M-L), c.1967
“Mastering Bolshevism” Pamphlet from the Internationalists, 1968
Special Election Bulletin, Trinity College Dublin: Democratic Student Front [CPI M-L] 1973
Red Patriot, Vol 5 – 42-43, 1976, Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist)
Spirit of Freedom leaflet, Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), 1987
Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist Leninist) – ‘Worker & Unemployed News’ from November 1987
The Left Archive: More from the CPI (M-L)
Voice of the Youth, Communist Youth Union of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), 1988
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Connolly Association
“What is the Connolly Association? Constitution and Explanation” – Connolly Association c.1963
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Cork Communist Organisation
The Cork Communist Organisation (a split from the ICO) – 1972
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Cork Workers’ Club
“On the IRA Belfast Brigade Area”, Jim Lane, Cork Workers’ Club, 1972
“Irish Socialists, Partition and the Struggle in the North”, Cork Workers’ Club, 1975
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Democratic Left
Times Change, Number 1, Spring 1994 – Democratic Left
”Times Change” from Democratic Left, 1994
“Times Change” from Democratic Left, Summer/Autumn 1995
The Irish Left Archive: Times Change, Number 9 Winter 1996/7, Democratic Left
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Derry Labour Party and Young Socialists
Barricades Bulletin: Special Edition, Derry Labour Party and Young Socialists, 25th August 1969
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Democratic Socialist Party [Republic of Ireland]
Policy on Church and State, DSP, c.1981
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Dublin Housing Action Committee
“Squatter”, broadsheet of the Dublin Housing Action Committee, June 1969
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Dublin Council of Trade Unions
‘In Dublin City in 1913: Songs and Stories of the Workers of Dublin’ – Dublin Council of Trade Unions, May Day Festival, 1988.
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Dublin ’68 Committee
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EPIC Research into Loyalist Experience in Prisons in Northern Ireland [Northern Ireland]
The Prison Experience – A Loyalist Perspective, by Marion Green, EPIC research document No.1, 1999.
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Fabian Society (UK)
Crisis in Ireland – David Bleakley – Fabian Research Series 318, Fabian Society (UK), December 1974
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Friends of the Union
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Gay Community News
Gay Community News, February 1996
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Green Party
The Green Party Election Manifesto 1989
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Independent Left
“Who’s Wrecking Civil Rights?”, Eamonn McCann, 1969
Brendan Ryan, Left Independent, 1989
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Independent Socialist Party (Ireland 1970s)
Independent Socialist Party, 1976 – 1978
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International Marxist Group (UK)
“Ireland Unfree” Bob Purdie, Rep Pamphlets 2, International Marxist Group, 1972 .
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International Socialists (UK)
“International Socialism 51″, International Socialists (UK), April-June 1972.
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Irish Communist Organisation
Irish Communist Organisation “Crisis in the Unionist Party”, May 1969
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Irish Labour Party
“Labour”, from the Irish Labour Party, 1967
Brendan Corish and “The New Republic” from the Irish Labour Party, 1968
Labour Party Bulletin – Tallaght Branch, Nov/Dec, 1969
The Labour News Bulletin, The Irish Labour Party, 1971
Labour, The Party Programme, Irish Labour Party Conference, 1980
TILT, The Irish Labour Tribune, The Irish Labour Party, 1997
Times Change – Number 20, Summer/Autumn 2000 [Labour Party - formerly a Democratic Left publication]
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Irish Reporter Magazine
Irish Reporter, Issue 16, fourth quarter 1994
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Irish Republican Socialist Party
IRSP Hunger Strike Bulletin No. 1, 1980
Venceremos – Paper of the Patsy O’Hara Youth Movement [Irish Republican Socialist Party], c.1981
Freedom News, Monthly Organ of Cork Irish Republican Socialist Party, October 1985
Freedom Struggle, North Munster Irish Republican Socialist Party, 1985.
The IRSP “Starry Plough” from 1989.
The IRSP “Starry Plough” from 1989.
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Irish Republican Writers Group
“Fourthwrite (the Journal of the Irish Republican Writers Group)” Issue 2, Summer 2000
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Irish Television Producers Association – 1987
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Irish Socialist Network
“Parting Company: Ending social partnership”, a pamphlet from the Irish Socialist Network, 2003
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Irish Student Movement
“The Irish Student”, from the Irish Student Movement, 1967
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Irish Workers Group
The Socialist Workers Movement: A Trotskyist Analysis – Irish Workers Group, 1992
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League of Communist Republicans
“From Long Kesh to a Socialist Ireland” League of Communist Republicans c.1988
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League for a Workers’ Republic
Workers Republic, Journal of the League for a Workers Republic, no. 84, 1981
Workers’ Republic, No. 96, League for a Workers Republic, May 1983
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Limerick Socialist Organisation
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Militant
“Militant” Special Irish Edition from January 1972
Militant Irish Monthly, Issue No.3, June 1972
Divide and Rule – Labour and the Partition of Ireland, Peter Hadden, Militant, 1980
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Miscellaneous
The Just Society [version], Fine Gael, 1965.
“Go Fourth and Multiply” The British Left in 1983 – Prunella Kaur/a.k.a. John Sullivan
Who Now are the Men of Violence? Derry Kelleher, Referendum Retrospect, Justice Books c.1986
James Connolly – Memorial unveiling brochure, Dublin, May 1996
Addendum to Left Archive: Sean Cronin, 1920 – 2011
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New Communist Party (UK)
Britain Out of Ireland! NCP, c. 1987
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Nicky Kelly Campaign
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Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA)
DIRECT RULE: ‘Civil Rights NOT Civil War’ Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) – 1972
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Official Republican Movement (1990s – 2000s)
An Solas – The voice of the Official Republican Movement, November 2005
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Official Sinn Féin
“Fianna Fail and the IRA” (from the Official Republican Movement) c. 1972?
Resistance – Magazine of the University Republican Clubs c.1972
Nuacht Naisiunta, Official Sinn Féin, 1972
The United Irishmen from Official Sinn Féin, September 1972
Official Sinn Féin: Imperialism and the Irish Nation, Repsol No. 9, c. early 1970s
Starry Plough [official Derry newspaper of OSF], from Official Sinn Féin, 1973.
Árd Fheis Report – Official Sinn Féin, 1972-1973.
“The Irish People” from Official Sinn Féin, 1974
“The Public Sector and the Profit Makers: The Case for State Workers” – Official Sinn Féin, c. 1975
“Liam McMillen, Separatist, Socialist, Republican” – Official Sinn Féin, 1975
“Teoiric: Theoretical Journal of the Republican Movement” from Official Sinn Féin, c.1975
Republican Worker, Official Sinn Féin, 1976
‘The Role of the IRA, 1962-1967’ by Liam McMillen, Official Sinn Féin…
‘The Plough’ from the Official Republican movement in South Down/South Armagh, c. 1977
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People’s Democracy
“Struggle in the North” by Michael Farrell (Peoples Democracy) 1970
Fascism and the Six Counties – Peoples Democracy, 1973/1974
“Unfree Citizen”, Newspaper of Peoples Democracy, July 1975
Peoples Democracy, ideology and just what is Trotskyism?
Prisoners of Partition – H-Block/Armagh A Peoples Democracy Pamphlet, c.1980/1981
Our Orientation to the Republican Movement, People’s Democracy discussion document, November 1984
The Women’s Movement at the Crossroads, An Reabhloid Pamphlet, Peoples Democracy, c. 1987/1988
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Progressive Unionist Party
Northern Ireland Assembly Election Manifesto, 2003 – Progressive Unionist Party
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Red Banner
“Red Banner: A magazine of Socialist Ideas”, Issue 1, November, 1997
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Republican Worker Tendency
The Downing Street Declaration ‘New Unionism and the Communities of Resistance – A Republican Worker Tendency pamphlet, 1994.
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Revolutionary Communist Group (UK)
“Hands Off Ireland!” – The Revolutionary Communist Group, Number Nine, November 1979
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Revolutionary Communist Party (UK)
The Next Step – Revolutionary Communist Party [UK], May 1987
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Revolutionary Communist Tendency (UK)
Ireland’s victory means Britain’s defeat’, Revolutionary Communist Tendency, 1980
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Revolutionary Marxist Group
“The Prospects Before Us”, Revolutionary Marxist Group, 1970s
Marxist Review, Theoretical Journal of the Revolutionary Marxist Group, No.3, Spring 1973
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Revolutionary Struggle
“Rebel”, Revolutionary Struggle, July, 1981
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Ripening of Time Collective
Ripening of Time, No. 4, The Capitalist State, 1976
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Saor Éire (Cork)
“People’s Voice” from Saor Éire, 1968
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Sinn Féin (to 1970) – including Irish Republican Army documents and statements
Nation or Province, Sinn Féin pamphlet on the Common Market, 1963
The Case Against the Common Market: Sinn Féin/Wolfe Tone Society – 1967
An tOglach – Offical Organ of the Irish Republican Army, No.1 c.1967
Left Archive: An tOglach – Offical Organ of the Irish Republican Army, December 1967
Presidential Address by Thomas Mac Giolla to the 63rd Sinn Féin Ard Fhéis, December 1968
The Irish Left Archive [Remembering 1969]: United Irishman: Sinn Féin March 1969
The Irish Left Archive [Remembering 1969]: United Irishman: Sinn Féin June 1969
The Left Archive [Remembering 1969]: United Irishman, Sinn Féin, July 1969.
Irish Left Archive [Remembering 1969]: Sinn Féin, Addendum to Ireland Today Document, July 1969
Irish Left Archive [Remembering 1969]: Irish Republican Army Statement – August 1969
Irish Left Archive [Remembering 1969]: Statement from the Republican Movement, 15 August 1969
Irish Left Archive [Remembering 1969]: Sinn Féin, National Solidarity Committee, August 1969
The Left Archive [Remembering 1969]: United Irishman, October 1969, Sinn Féin
The Left Archive [Remembering 1969]: United Irishman, November 1969, Sinn Féin
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Sinn Féin (1969 onwards)
Provisional Sinn Féin, Éire Nua, January 1971, Appendix 1972…
Republican News, Provisional Sinn Féin, July 1974
The Split – Provisional Sinn Féin c.1982.
The “Inner City Republican” – Provisional Sinn Féin in 1983.
IRIS – The Republican Magazine, November 1983, Number 7, Provisional Sinn Féin
“Clár agus rúin” =Sinn Féin, 1986 Ard-Fheis.
“The Politics of Revolution” from Sinn Féin, following the 1986 Ard-Fheis on Abstentionism
“An Camhéachta – The Starry Plough” Sinn Féin Theoretical Magazine, 1991
An Phoblacht/Republican News, Sinn Féin, March 1991, 75th Anniversary of the Rising
An Phoblacht/Republican News, Sinn Féin, June 1994
An Phoblacht/Republican News, Sinn Féin, July 1994
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Socialist Alternative [Dublin/Belfast - split from SWP early 2000s]
Left Archive: Catalyst – Socialist Alternative [splinter from SWP], 2003
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Socialist Organiser (UK)
The Left Archive: Ireland: The Socialist Answer, Socialist Organiser, 1989 – Part 1
Ireland: The Socialist Answer, Socialist Organiser, 1989 – Part 2
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Socialist Party of Ireland (1970s)
Socialist Party of Ireland, 1971 -1982 [including Report from 1st Annual Congress, 1973]
Advance, No. 22 July-August, 1976
“Advance” from the Socialist Party of Ireland, 1977
SuperSpi, Socialist Party of Ireland, June-July 1978.
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Socialist Party of Great Britain
The Irish Question: A Socialist Analysis – A “Wereldsocialisme” Pamphlet, SPGB, 1976.
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Socialist Party of Ireland, 1949 – [affiliated to SPGB etc]
Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Ireland with Declaration of Principles, SPI, c.1949
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Socialist Party (Ireland), 1990s to date
Revolution in Ireland 1798, Socialist Party (Ireland), 1998
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Socialist Workers Movement
What Happened in Derry. Eamonn McCann (1972), A Socialist Worker Pamphlet
The Worker, May – June 1974, Socialist Workers’ Movement
“Socialists, Republicanism and the Armed Struggle” from the Socialist Workers’ Movement c. 1991.
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Socialist Workers Party (UK)
Troops Out -Socialist Workers’ Party, 1980
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Spartacist Group Ireland
Spartacist Ireland: Spring/Summer 2002, No.1
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Trade Unionists for Irish Unity and Independence
Trade Unionists for Irish Unity and Independence, October 1986
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Workers League
Revolution, Republicanism and Religion: An examination of the republican response to clerical attacks. Workers League c. late 1970s
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The Workers’ Party (including Sinn Féin the Workers’ Party)
“The United Irishman” from Sinn Féin – The Workers’ Party, 1979
“Tony O’Reilly’s Last Game” – Sinn Féin The Workers’ Party, 1979 edition.
“Teoiric” the Theoretical Journal of Sinn Féin the Workers’ Party, 1980
“The Irish People” from Sinn Féin the Workers’ Party, 1981
“Workers Life: The Magazine for Workers” Sinn Féin: The Workers’ Party, February 1981
“Ireland”, Sinn Féin The Workers’ Party – Autumn 1981
Ireland and the Socialist Countries, taken from a speech by Sean Garland in 1986, Workers’ Party
Making Sense, The Workers’ Party, December 1988
Presidential Address by Proinsias De Rossa TD, Workers’ Party Annual Delegate Conference, 1989
Presidential Address, Proinsias De Rossa TD MEP, 1990
“The Necessity of Social Democracy” by Eoghan Harris, Workers’ Party 1990
Document submitted to the debate on the Constitution of the Workers’ Party, 1990
“Making Sense”, the Workers’ Party, 1990
Making Sense from the Workers’ Party, 1991
Socialist Digest, Issue 1, printed by Repsol (Workers’ Party), 1991
Addendum to the Workers’ Party 1991 Debate from ‘Making Sense’
“The Future is Socialism” from the Workers’ Party post-split 1993
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Workers Revolutionary Party (UK)
The British Left and The Irish War – Workers Power [UK], 1983
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Workers Revolutionary Party (UK)
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World Socialist Party [Ireland]
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LEFT OPEN HISTORY PROJECT DOCUMENTATION
‘Miscellaneous Notes On Republicanism And Socialism In Cork City, 1954–69′ By Jim Lane (Cork, 2005)
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