Aonrud · @aonrud
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The Microblog.pub instance for the Irish Left Archive @ila seems to be working fairly smoothly, though I'm sure there are plenty of feature gaps in the custom templates still to be found...

Thanks to @dev for a great project! And for responding so quickly to bug reports :)

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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1st January 1974: The Communist Organisation in the British Isles was formed in a split from the British and Irish Communist Organisation.

leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/01/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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Published 31st December 1987:

"Peace With Justice is Still the Aim"

An Phoblacht Republican News, newspaper of Sinn Féin.

leftarchive.ie/document/4221/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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New document: An Phoblacht Republican News, Iml. 1, Uimh. 38

From Sinn Féin, 1979.

leftarchive.ie/document/6227/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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🎙 In the latest episode of the Irish Left Archive Podcast we spoke to Orla Egan (@orlaegan) and Megan Luddy O’Leary about their recently published book, Diary of an Activist, an illustrated memoir of social activism in the 1980s and 90s.

We'll be back with more in the new year!

leftarchive.ie/podcast/43-diar

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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Published 19th December 1985:

"Advances for Marxist-Leninist Party"
"Advances for Working Class and Revolutionary Movement"

Marxist-Leninist Weekly, organ of The Central Committee of The Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist).

leftarchive.ie/publication/128

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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New document:

An Ghrian Dhearg, No. 1, 2020.

"Voice of MLM Ireland", from the Moaist Irish Socialist Republicans (ISR).

leftarchive.ie/document/6219/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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18th December 1981, the Dublin Unemployed Action Group (DUAG) held their second “Rock ‘N’ Dole” gig, with Poison Girls and Xn Trix playing.

leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/12/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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From 1949, the Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Ireland (SPI) with Declaration of Principles.

The 1949 SPI was affiliated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB). It became the World Socialist Party in 1959, and had a sporadic presence in Ireland at least until the 1980s.

leftarchive.ie/document/419/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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From 1981, a special issue of Workers Republic after the death of Bobby Sands.

Published by the League for a Workers' Republic, a Trotskyist organisation active from 1968 until the late 80s.

leftarchive.ie/document/467/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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From 1973, "Irish Nationalism & British Imperialism".

From the Revolutionary Marxist Group (RMG), the Irish branch of the Fourth International.

RMG later became the Movement for a Socialist Republic, who then merged with People's Democracy.

Written by Rayner Lysaght (under the pseudonym Robert Dorn).

leftarchive.ie/document/1180/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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13th December 1970, The Socialist Party of Ireland was formed.

The SPI was extant through the 1970s. In 1982 it merged with the Limerick Socialist Organisation to form the Democratic Socialist Party.

leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/12/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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New document:

The Plough, from the Revolutionary Marxist Group, 1975.

"The Coalition and SDLP Back Down Before Loyalists, But Opposition Exists -- Let its Voice Be Heard!"

leftarchive.ie/document/6213/

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Irish Left Archive · @LeftArchive
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🎙 New episode:

We talk to Orla Egan (@orlaegan) and Megan Luddy O'Leary about their recently published illustrated memoir, Diary of An Activist.

leftarchive.ie/podcast/43-diar

#irishleftarchive #mastodaoine #cork #activism #politics #ireland

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