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A quick introduction and update as the Irish Left Archive Podcast starts back, with more interviews with activists coming soon.

leftarchive.ie/podcast/40-pod…

Apropos of nothing particular in the news, here's your regular reminder of where to find us on open, federated social media: mastodon.online/@LeftArchive

#OTD 2nd November 1986: Republican Sinn Féin were formed in a split over abstention from Leinster House.

leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/11…

New document:

'Stop the Cuts & Charges — Fight Back with the Team You Can Trust'

A leaflet from Workers & Unemployed Action, c. 2014

leftarchive.ie/document/6018/

There was a trend a few years back of referring to FF and FG as 'Tweedledum & Tweedledee'. Here's the Irish Workers' Voice making the same comparison in November 1930, 92 years ago.

On 30 October, 1920, the Communist Party of Australia was formed. It remained (arguably) the largest party to the left of the ALP until it dissolved in 1991.

Thanks to Trove, the newspapers of the CPA from December 1920 to April 1991 have now been digitised.

1979 European Elections poster from Sinn Féin

Would love if this got a reprint but in the meantime you can read Berndette McAliskey's Book The Price of My Soul online. archive.org/details/priceo…