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  Irish Republican
The IAL decree that the political violence that exists in northern Ireland stems from the presence of the British authorities and the British troops garrisoned in the region.
Republican Sinn Fein is a political party separate from Sinn Fein and is considered the political wing of the Continuity IRA, whereas the Irish Republican Socialist Party is affiliated with the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
The IAL openly welcome the admission of Irish nationalist political parties into the current round of peace negotiations in northern Ireland, and oppose the British government's decision to suspend the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), and demand that the British government resume peace talks in northern Ireland.
www.irishrepublican.gq.nu   (483 words)

  
  Irish National Liberation Army: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) was a breakaway group from the Official IRA, made up mainly of those unwilling to accept that group’s decision to suspend its military operations in May 1972 and unwilling to betray their socialist principles by joining the Provisionals.
A new political party, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP[?]), under the leadership of Seamus Costello, was set up by these dissidents at a meeting outside Dublin on 8 December 1974.
It was deemed to be the most ruthless of the Irish terror organisations, but within a decade the group had degenerated through a series of splits, internal feuds, with the warring factions killing each other to such a degree that by the late 1980s it had virtually ceased to exist in its original form.
www.encyclopedian.com /in/INLA.html   (443 words)

  
 Irish Socialist Republican Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Irish Socialist Republican Party was an Irish political party founded in 1896 by James Connolly.
During it's lifespan the party probably never had more than 40 - 50 members and it only had one really active branch, the Dublin one, There were several attempts to create branches in Cork and Belfast in particular but they never came to much.
Following Connolly's execution by the British in 1916 and the 1917 February Revolution in Russia, the party was once more revived and in 1921 it became the first Communist Party of Ireland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_Socialist_Republican_Party   (365 words)

  
 The Ultimate Irish Republican Socialist Party Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) describes itself as a republican socialist party and claims to be both Marxist and Republican.
Like many political parties in Ireland, it claims the legacy of James Connolly, who founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party in 1896 and was executed after the Easter Rising of 1916.
The Irish Republican Socialist Party was founded on 8 December 1974 by former members of the Official Republican Movement, independent socialists, and trade unionists.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/IRSP   (805 words)

  
 Irish Democrat : Features : James Connolly, Irish socialist
The Irish Socialist Republican Party was founded in 1896 as an independent national workers' party, in the interests of the Irish working class.
The party had its roots in the radical democratic republican tradition, for Connolly considered that the fight for socialism in Ireland must be linked to the struggle for national liberation and that the Irish socialist was the continuing force of the revolutionary republican tradition.
Members of the Supreme Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the radical republican movement from Fenian days, were not averse to an alliance with Connolly and the labour movement.
www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /features/james-connolly-irish-socialist   (1356 words)

  
 Irish Democrat : Connolly Column : Socialism and Irish nationalism
The reactionary attitude of our political leaders notwithstanding, the great mass of the Irish people know full well that if they had once conquered that political liberty which they struggle for with so much ardour, it would have to be used as a means of social redemption before their well-being would be assured.
In the same way the Irish Socialist Republican Party seeks the independence of the nation, while refusing to conform to the methods or to employ the arguments of the chauvinist nationalist.
An Irish Republic would then be the natural depository of popular power; the weapon of popular emancipation, the only power which would show in the full light of day all these class antagonisms and lines of economic demarcation now obscured by the mists of bourgeois patriotism.
www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /connolly/con-col-julyaugust-2004   (930 words)

  
 Fight Sectarianism
The Irish Republican Socialist Party supported plans made by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in solidarity of workers being targeted by UDA fascist death squads.
He continued: [base "]The Irish Republican Socialist Party believes that the intimidation of workers, whatever their religious beliefs may be, is totally unacceptable.
"Republican socialists believe that the death of any worker or the continued intimidation of workers on the grounds of what religious persuasion or community they come from is to be completely condemned without hesitation.
radio.weblogs.com /0100730/stories/2002/02/12/fightSectarianism.html   (728 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The party sent representatives to international conferences this past year in Italy and Puerto Rico, as well as meeting with other revolutionaries on a trip to Vienna, Austria and sending a representative to the Kurdish National Parliament in Exile at its meeting in Amsterdam earlier this year.
The party is preparing for high level talks to be renewed with the Welsh socialists Cymru Goch and will be working with activists from a number of struggles in a shared propaganda effort called peoplestruggle.com in the near future.
As an unabashedly revolutionary socialist and republican movement, the IRSM deserves-even demands, simply by its existence-the solidarity and support of other revolutionaries internationally, just as it is compelled to lend its solidarity to others fighting for the same aims as ourselves.
irelandsown.net /IRSM.htm   (1306 words)

  
 Irish Republican Army -- Freedom First Then Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Party also understands that no parliamentary road to socialism exists, and feels no compulsion to participate in all electoral campaigns, but is prepared to use parliamentary politics and hold elective office as a means of carrying out propaganda, and where possible to aid the self-organization of the working class towards winning immediate objectives.
The Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) were founded on 10 December 1974 by Séamus Costello and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.
Three of the 10 republican hunger strikers who died in 1981 were in the INLA: Patsy O Hara, Kevin Lynch and Mickey Devine.
www.freewebs.com /republicanarmy/inla.htm   (1444 words)

  
 The Socialist Party - Welcome to Our 2007 General Election site - Vote Socialist Party No.1 on May 24th
Socialist Youth also campaigns for young workers rights, against low pay, opposed student fees and against the imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The campaign by the Socialist Party and the industrial action of the GAMA workers resulted in them being paid tens of millions of euro in back wages and forced GAMA to pay trade union rates.
The Socialist Party is aiming to build a new mass working class party based on struggling to end the exploitation of the working class and ending the rule of the capitalist elite.
www.socialistparty.net /election07   (1332 words)

  
 Irish Republican Socialist Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) describes itself as a republican socialist party and claims to be both Marxist-Leninist and republican.
The Irish Republican Socialist Party was founded on 8 December 1974 by former members of the Official Republican Movement, independent socialists, and trade unionists headed by Seamus Costello.
The party is represented in North America by the Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IRSP   (879 words)

  
 'A review of: Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904' - swp.ie - Socialist ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This excellent book on the Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP) by Dave Lynch gives an important historical account of one of the first parties that sought to link the struggle for independence with the struggle for socialism through the establishment of an Irish Socialist Republic.
Therefore socialists rather than spending energy on trying to convince these ‘advanced nationalists’ of socialism should concentrate instead on convincing their audience and support base to move away from nationalism to a strategy of workers struggle from below as the way to win both national liberation and socialism.
The main focus of the ISRP was getting socialists elected to parliament, therefore they missed the potential of gaining strength from supporting strikes that were going on at the time.
www.swp.ie /socialistworker/2005/sw243/sw-243-13.htm   (1030 words)

  
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Unfortunately, Connolly never placed the party (be it the ISRP or its successor, the Socialist Party of Ireland founded in 1909) at the centre of his attention.
The fact that the Socialist Party of Ireland was a loose centrist organisation and the very all-embracing nature of the ITGWU meant that the workers’movement had no ideologically trained vanguard to resist the replacement of Connolly and Larkin by opportunists like William O Brien.
The IRSP is not the political wing of the trade union movement, or the INLA its military wing!
lark.phoblacht.net /connollyrepubsoc.html   (1249 words)

  
 New book by Alan Woods on Irish Republicanism
Irish Republicanism is in crisis and not for the first time.
That party was the Irish Republican Socialist Party, a party I have the privilege of being a member of.
When the members of the Republican Socialist Movement took back control of that movement from an apolitical leadership in 1994/5, they were guided by the writings in particular of Ta Power because he had so much to say about the internal mechanisms within revolutionary organisations.
www.marxist.com /Europe/gerry_ruddy_introduction.htm   (1385 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance founding conference
As the great Irish Marxist, James Connolly, was fond of saying nearly a century ago to those who cautioned then that he be moderate, that he be "practical": the working class is not asking for anything beyond what we are entitled to--that is, the earth.
A mass socialist party would commit itself to direct action: to struggle in the workplaces and on the estates, to demonstrations and mass agitation, defiance of the police and the courts.
We congratulate all participants of the Socialist Alliance Meeting and we are sure that the platform to the election in December 2001 will be done with the most pure socialist ideal and it will strength the international solidarity between socialist, progressive and democratic Parties and organizations around the world.
www.socialist-alliance.org /conf/2001_8/greetings.shtml   (5038 words)

  
 Scottish Republican Socialist John MacLean - Life and Works
Greetings of solidarity from the Irish Republican Socialist Party and the Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America on the occasion of this celebration of the contribution of that towering figure of Scottish socialism, John MacLean.
Today, the members of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement join you honouring John MacLean, who like that other Scottish born socialist leader, James Connolly, provided the working classes of these islands with two of the greatest figures of their day within the world socialist movement.
The argument for international socialists that the break-up of the United Kingdom and the promotion of socialism in Scotland as part of a socialist "commonwealth" of states throughout Europe and the world is relevant and very potent today.
www.jmsc09551.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /john_maclean.htm   (11496 words)

  
 Ireland
By Gerry Ruddy of the Irish Republican Socialist Party
Twenty five years ago British imperialism demonstrated its cold, calculating cruelty in the face of Irish Republican prisoners who felt they had no alternative but to make the ultimate sacrifice in the struggle for political rights, embarking on a hunger strike that would tragically end with their deaths.
Ezker Marxista and El Militante organised a speaking tour last week throughout the Basque Country, with Gerry Rudy and Danny of the IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party) speaking in many Basque working class neighbourhoods, drawing the lessons of the experiences in Ireland and linking these to the struggle for national liberation of the Basque Country.
www.socialist.net /ireland/index.php   (1559 words)

  
 Irish Republican Socialist Party - Politics.ie Wiki
It was formed by members of Official Sinn Féin in 1974 who were growing disillusioned with the moves away from paramilitarism being pursued by the party leadership.
The IRSP shares a common political outlook with the Irish National Liberation Army, which is currently on ceasefire.
Its youth wing was formerly the Patsy O'Hara Youth Movement, which has been succeeded by the Republican Socialist Youth Movement.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Irish_Republican_Socialist_Party   (85 words)

  
 Peter Urban, IRSP Ard Fheis
All party members will now be required to be attached to a minimum of two departments, reporting to the Ard Comhairle members responsible for those departments.
The IRSP stated we have drawn a line under the past and we are taking a mature approach—the door is open to anyone who agrees with republican socialist politics.
Reaffirming its opposition to the Stormont talks which the IRSP believes are going nowhere, the Ard Fheis condemned a proposed referendum to be held separately in both the six and 26 county statelets.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/61/276.html   (382 words)

  
 Green Left - McAliskey: `We want a new negotiation'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Irish Republican Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Movement were excluded.
Right-wing, paramilitary organisations on the unionist side were specifically invited to form parties for the purpose of being invited to stand for the elections to the negotiating table.
The fundamental principle of republicanism is self-determination -- and not one shred of self-determination is involved in this “peace accord”.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1998/321/321p22.htm   (1772 words)

  
 Weekly Worker 253 Thursday August 27 1998
The Ard Comhairle on behalf of the membership of the Irish Republican Socialist Party strongly welcome today’s statement from the leadership of the Irish National Liberation Army of its decision to call a genuine and sincere cessation of its military campaign.
Let us state clearly today that the IRSP believe that the six-county state and its agencies are irreformable.
For our part, the Irish Republican Socialist Party pledge ourselves to continue to agitate for and represent Irish working class interests - that is our task.
www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/253/irsp.html   (468 words)

  
 Reply to a letter from the Irish Republicanism Socialist Party
There was a clear agenda to destroy the Republican Socialist Movement in order to pave the way for the final settlement of the Irish Question by the imposition of the two state solution along so called democratic lines to allow for further penetration by international capital.
The IRSP response was to run a campaign in the union in support of a member of the Socialist party who was also standing.
This is a standard rant against socialists, based on the republican militarist assertion that there were two struggles — the real struggle of the armed groups and the lesser struggle of the socialists, political activists and indeed, the whole mass of the Irish working class.
www.socialistdemocracy.org /Debate/DebateReplyToLetterFromIRSP.html   (2235 words)

  
 James Connolly: The ISRP and the Dewsbury Election (1902)
The Irish Socialist Republican Party and the Dewsbury Election, Justice, 29 March 1902, p.6.
Our manifesto was noticed favourably in the Socialist press of Germany, France, and America; that it should be ignored by the English Socialists to whom it was addressed was not calculated to the promotion of fraternal feelings between us.
We are under no delusion as to the composition of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and if the Liberal candidate had been an honest Home Ruler it would have been quite consistent for them to have supported him rather than a Socialist; seeing, however, that he was an Imperialist, their action was somewhat inconsistent.
marxists.anu.edu.au /archive/connolly/1902/03/dewsbury.htm   (763 words)

  
 What Is Irish Republican Socialism?
The IRSP rejects a 'stagist' concept of the struggle - that first we must win national liberation and then we can press forward towards socialist objectives - understanding the national liberation struggle is but an aspect of the struggle for socialism.
The Party also rejects the position that socialism can be achieved in one or both parts of Ireland without reunification, understanding that it is the very fact of partition that has served to divide the Irish working class and mask their actual collective interests as a class.
The Party also understands that no parliamentary road to socialism exists, and feels no compulsion to participate in all electoral campaigns, but is prepared to use parliamentary politics and hold elective office as a means of carrying out propaganda, and where possible to aid the self-organization of the working class towards winning immediate objectives.
www.irsm.org /history/whatis.html   (815 words)

  
 Irish Liberation and May Day : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Irish Republican Socialist Party's May Day message has condemned the use of Temporary Employment Agencies and urged workers to resist this slave trade by reclaiming May Day's hidden past.
That is why today, as republican socialists, we do not just celebrate class resistance but also acknowledge that little has been done by those in officialdom to combat the harsh reality workers continue to face.
"The IRSP have attempted to articulate the plight of those dispossessed as there are values in this world that transcend the selfishness, greed and corruption that is endemic in capitalism.
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=100251   (727 words)

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