A Leaflet from Labour Youth with the catchy headline “Dont believe everything you read in the papers -Indo lies for $hell”
The leaflet cites a poll on the Shell To Sea Campaign for the Indo and tries to show bias in the questions asked etc.
“Don’t believe everything you read in the papers -Indo lies for $hell” -Labour Youth June 18, 2011
US Military Out of Shannon Leaflet from Labour Youth 2006 April 16, 2011
This was a leaflet given out by Labour Youth in I think 2006 against US Military landings in Shannon. Its a clever design in that it gives instructions on how to make a paper airplane out of the leaflet.
‘Never Mind The Blueshirts… Here’s The Socialism’ -Labour Youth -Left Tribune vol2 issue 4 2006 June 1, 2010
From 2006 an issue of Labour Youth publication Left Tribune with the catchy cover using the Sex Pistols theme with ‘Never Mind The Blueshirts… Here’s The Socialism’
A decent enough read which includes brief profiles of Labours candidates in the 2007 General Election in Dublin and the Ireland North West area.
Many thanks to Dermot L for bringing this to my attention.
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The full newsletter (a *.pdf file) is available at http://www.labour.ie/download/youth/pdf/nevermindtheblueshirts.pdf
Donegal Labour /Labour Youth -1985 LE December 5, 2009
Donegal Labour weren’t happy about being in coalition with Fine Gael. Being Socialists they didn’t want coalition with Fianna Fail either.God knows what they would have thought of the yet to be formed Progressive Democrats.
That small piece shows the problems parties (especially of the Left) have when going into Coalition. Here were Donegal Labour in effect, disavowing the party that they were standing for. Maybe thats why the literature differs from the 1985 Labour Party template.
Under the No Coalition is a small bit about Labour Youth and a recruitment ‘form’. The name to send off to is F McCafferty. Francis McClafferty stood in the 2004 local elections for the Socialist Party. In 2009 he was part of the group that set up the ‘Letterkenny Residents Party’ which had Tom Crossan elected to the UDC.
On the Reverse is a profile of Anne Wilkinson who was standing in the 1985 local elections for Labour.
Flyer for the Labour Youth 1989 Summer Festival November 7, 2009
A Paul Newman lookalike on a surfboard advertises the 1989 Labour Youth Summer Festival. At the back the dilema of to stay in the hostel, sports hall or Tent is there as of course is the temptation to say you were under 26.
‘Ten reasons to be a Labour Student’ October 2, 2009
This is from around 1990 , mentions Red Wedge and the reader would be under no doubt that the Labour Party were Socialists. Also covers issues related to the time such as Apartheid.
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