Posted in Irish Trotskyism, Irish Labour History on Jan 11th, 2010 10 Comments »
I finally tracked down a decent copy of the somewhat infamous photo of Charlie Bird giving a clenched-fist salute at the funeral of murdered Irish trotskyist, Peter Graham. It comes from the cover of This Week, 12 November 1971.
The article is embedded below.
Posted in Irish Trotskyism, Irish journalism, Irish History on Jan 5th, 2010 4 Comments »
I was going through some old copies of Red Mole and The Plough today, for an article I’m working on about the Revolutionary Marxist Group (Ireland), when I came across photos of the funeral of Peter Graham, the Irish Trotskyist who was murdered in Dublin on October 1971.
One of the photos was of the […]
Posted in Irish Trotskyism, Irish Marxism, Irish Labour History on Nov 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
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, […]
Posted in Irish Trotskyism, Irish Marxism, Irish Labour History on Nov 12th, 2009 No Comments »
[League for a Workers’ Republic, After the Election 1977, available here. (1.92MB)]
According to D.R. O’Connor Lysaght in his Early History of Irish Trotskyism, the League for a Workers Republic was formed in March 1968. Those involved in its foundation included Sean Matgamna, Peter Graham, Paddy Healy, and Liam Daltun. It arose out of a split […]
Posted in Irish Trotskyism, Irish Marxism, Labour studies, Irish Labour History on Oct 29th, 2009 1 Comment »
[Not to be confused with the 1960s Irish Workers Group.]
The Irish Workers Group (IWG) was formed sometime around the end of 1975 following a series of expulsions that year from the Socialist Workers Movement (SWM). In 1977 the IWG produced Class Struggle, a theoretical journal of which twenty issues were produced over the next ten […]
Posted in Irish Trotskyism, Irish Marxism, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History, politics/Ireland on Oct 26th, 2009 No Comments »
[This is a repost from Cedarlounge, 15 October 2009]
Of the other elements involved perhaps it is worth mentioning the Irish Workers Group, which is a revolutionary Socialist group which aims to mobilise the Irish section of the international working class to overthrow the existing Irish bourgeois states, destroy all remaining imperialist organs of political and […]
