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Tuesday, Mar 16th 2010


Irish Marxism on Irish Left Review

The Socialist Party of Ireland 1971 - 1982

Pdf of SPI 1973 Report of the 1st national congress here: SPI73REPORT
As a means of opening the discussion on the SPI the accompanying document was donated by Mark P (for which many thanks and many thanks also to the SP for allowing us access to some documents from their archive) and seems entirely suitable for [...]

Joe Deasy: Irish Marxist

The following clip is from an interview with Joe Deasy, who was born in 1922 and who met and worked with Jim Larkin Snr in the 1940s. Both were Labour councillors on Dublin Corporation. Joe would later leave the Labour party and join the Irish Workers League, which was a communist organisation, the antecedent to [...]

 
 Joe Deasy on the Ballyfermot Co-op [13:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (142)

JOHN THRONE ON THE CWI AND EXPULSION

In September 2009 I interviewed John Throne about his own history, as well as the Irish left and working class. We talked for about two hours and after I had stopped recording, I asked John would it be ok to ask him about his expulsion from the Committee for a Workers’ International. He said yes, [...]

 
 John Throne on CWI [17:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (172)