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From 1975, the Starry Plough, newspaper of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), on the execution of five members of ETA and FRAP under Franco's fascist dictatorship.
The article highlights Irish solidarity action and draws parallels with Irish Republicanism.
It also notes the potential for several more executions, though thankfully they didn't take place and Franco died two months later.
#Euskadi #Basque #Ireland #Spain #IRSP #IrishLeftArchive

Opposition is continually growing in Spain and the Basque country to Franco's oppression. Since last August Basque members of ETA (Basque Nation and Freedom) and members of the Left-Wing Revolutionary Anti-Fascist and Patriotic Front (FRAP) have been sentenced to death by Spanish military courts. 5 have been executed already. Strikes and protests have taken place not only in the Basque country but also throughout Spain and abroad. Such is the amount of protests that 1,000 Spanish priests have sent a letter to the Archbishop of Madrid asking the Spanish Catholic Episcopal Conference to oppose the new 'anti-terrorism' law-and the death sentences being opposed under it. 130,000 have been on strike in the Basque region for over 6 days. Last year Anti Puich, a Catalan activist was garroted (strangled to death) in the 15th century torture. The Basques are demanding self-determination of Euskadi (Basqueland) and all other nationalities oppressed by the Spanish state, freedom of the Basque language, bilingualism in Basque education, freedom for Basque popular culture and state subsidies for the popular Basque schools founded by the Basque resistance. While different Basque groups exist they have put tactical differences aside and united in a broad front of action. This is one of the many reasons that they enjoy wide support, particularly in.the Basque county. Last December saw half a million Basque people actively support a general strike…

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🎙 New podcast episode, featuring politically influential books, films, music, events and media from several of our guests throughout the year.

Happy new year! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Irish Left Archive during 2023 by donating documents, offering feedback and appearing on (and listening to!) the podcast!

https://podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/episodes/politics-and-cultural-influence

#IrishPodcast #IrishLeftArchive #Politics #Ireland #NewYear

Published #OnThisDay 26th April 1994:

The Downing Street Declaration: New Unionism and the Communities of Resistance

From the Republican Worker Tendency.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/390/

#IrishLeftArchive #OTD #RepublicanWorkersTendency

Taken from Women's View, No. 9, published by The Workers' Party. You can read the article on our website: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/2575/?page=2

#IrishLeftArchive #TheWorkersParty #WomensView

New document: Oráid an Uachtaráin Presidential Address, Tomás Mac Giolla TD, Árd Fheis Annual Conference, 1986, The Workers Party

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6399/

#IrishLeftArchive #TheWorkersParty #TomásMacGiolla #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory

From the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in 1975: Bill of Rights (Northern Ireland) Act 1975, presented to the people of N. Ireland by N.I.C.R.A.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/4589/

#IrishLeftArchive #BillOfRights #NICRA #CivilRights #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory

The article in which this cartoon appears can be read in United Irishman, Vol. 33, No. 7 on our website: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/1736/?page=14

#IrishLeftArchive #UnitedIrishman

A cartoon from United Irishman in 1975 on American adoptions of Vietnamese children.

United Irishman was the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin.

#IrishLeftArchive #UnitedIrishman #OfficialSinnFéin #Vietnam

A cartoon depicting a number of Vietnamese children on a display stand labelled "Vietnam Orphan Souvenirs", "Remember your stay in Vietnam forever" and "Limited supply". An American couple, identified by a "USA" label on a carry-bag, are pointing at one of the children. It is captioned "That one would look nice in the den."

Published #OnThisDay 13th April 1973, a "Special Election Bulletin" from the Democratic Student Front.

The group was formed by the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) in Trinity College Dublin to contest the student representative council elections.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/457/

#IrishLeftArchive #OTD #DemocraticStudentFront #CPIML #Maoism

Updates to our bibliography of Irish Left periodicals: https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/updated-bibliography-of-irish-left-periodicals/

#IrishLeftArchive #Mastodaoine #IrishLeft #IrishPolitics #Histodon

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

From 1971, the first issue of Official Sinn Féin's theoretical journal, Teoric.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2109/

#IrishLeftArchive #OfficialSinnFéin #Teoric

The article comes from The United Irishman, Vol. 23, No. 7, which can be viewed in full on our website: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1608/

#IrishLeftArchive #UnitedIrishman #SinnFéin

From 1969, an article on opposition to the appointment of Charles as Prince of Wales, and the ongoing trial of nine members of the Free Wales Army.

From United Irishman, newspaper of Sinn Féin.

#IrishLeftArchive #FreeWalesArmy #Cymru #Wales #PrinceOfWales

Scanned newspaper article headlined "Wales Defiled!", with a caricature image of Charles, and reading:

On July 1 as we go to press a representative of the English Crown, the most vicious institution of murder the world has ever known, was installed as "prince" of Wales.

Surrounded by the largest force of police and troops ever mounted in peacetime the English “royals” imposed themselves on the people of Wales. The “royal” occasion did not pass without protest however: bombs exploded in Cardiff, the Welsh Capital, and in Abergele, forty miles from Caernarvon, two men were killed while placing explosives in a government office.

At the same time the marathon trial of members of the Free Wales Army was coming to an end and the verdicts were due to be announced on July 1. Referring to the trial, our Welsh correspondent writes:

Now as the Free Wales Army trial drags to its seemingly interminable close the moment of decision — the “crunch” — arrives. Not only for those patriots in the dock at Swansea. The hour of decision has arrived for the whole movement towards devolution of Government away from the Whitehall tyrannies of the Harold Wilson regime. Sadly, most sadly, one or two signs of the cracking of resolve are to be seen amongst those who took upon themselves the heavy responsibility of putting themselves forward as martyrs in the cause of the struggle to save the lifeblood of the Welsh nation.

The inspiration for the Welsh militant movement sprang — as it was b

New document: People's Voice, No. 6.

Magazine of Saor Éire, 1969.

Note, this is the Cork-based organisation, not to be confused with the Saor Éire Action Group.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6371/

#IrishLeftArchive #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #SaorÉire #PeoplesVoice

Published #OnThisDay 1st April 1972:

"Military Dictatorship in Northern Ireland"

Freedom, anarchist weekly from Freedom Press.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1187/

#IrishLeftArchive #OTD #FreedomPress #Anarchism

#OnThisDay 31st March 1976, the Sallins Train robbery occurred.

Three members of the IRSP were charged with the robbery and convicted despite evidence of torture after arrest. A significant campaign for the release of Nicky Kelly was organised. Kelly was ultimately released, and later received a presidential pardon and compensation.

Here are documents from the campaign in our collection: https://www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2674/

#OTD #IrishLeftArchive #IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #SallinsTrainRobbery #IRSP #NickyKelly

Scanned front page of a newspaper called Nicky Kelly News, with front-page articles headlined: The Song that Tells it All Banned By RTÉ; and Campaign Goes On

Front cover of A State Conspiracy: IRSP and The 'Great' Train Robbery Frame-up

The other Saor Éire was a Maoist-influenced group in Cork, and a successor to the Irish Revolutionary Forces. It published a magazine called People's Voice, which can be read in the archive: https://www.leftarchive.ie/publication/131/

Associated with Jim Lane, members went on to join the Irish Communist Organisation (ICO), though later left to form the Cork Communist Organisation after the ICO moved to the "two nations" theory.

#IrishLeftArchive #SaorÉire #IrishRevolutionaryForces #IrishCommunistOrganisation #CorkCommunistOrganisation

Two unconnected later groups, active in the late 1960s and early 70s, also had the name Saor Éire.

One was a Republican "urban guerilla" group formed by former IRA members and Trotskyists, also known as the Saor Éire Action Group. It was involved in a number of bank robberies to fund arms purchases in the late 60s. By 1975 it had dissolved.

Their manifesto, reportedly printed by Peter Graham using the presses of Red Mole in London (the publication of the International Marxist Group), is available in the archive here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1712/

#SaorÉire #RedMole #InternationalMarxistGroup #IMG #IrishLeftArchive

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