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  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/Irish_Republican_Socialist_Party   (821 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Irish Republican Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Physical force Irish republicanism had a long history, from the Ribbonmen of the late 18th century to the 1798 and 1803 rebellions, the Young Irelander rebellion of 1848 and the Irish Republican Brotherhood of 1865.
The party's founder and leader, Arthur Griffith, was campaigning for a dual monarchy with Britain, a return to the status quo of the Constitution of 1782, enacted by the Irish Parliament under Henry Grattan's Parliament.
The party went on to win a clear majority of seats in the 1918 general election : of the 73 seats in which Sinn Féin were elected, 25 were uncontested.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Irish_Republican_Army   (4424 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.
Its aim was to establish Ireland as a workers' republic.
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   (178 words)

  
 Socialist Party - Politics.ie Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Socialist Party of Ireland - the successor to James Connolly's Irish Socialist Republican Party, which in 1921 became the Communist Party of Ireland.
Socialist Party of Ireland - a tiny splinter group of official Sinn Féin, which merged with other groups to form the Democratic Socialist Party in 1980.
Socialist Youth is the youth wing of the Socialist Party, with branches in most of the cities and towns where the Socialist Party is organised.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Socialist_Party   (494 words)

  
 Report of the Socialist Party of Ireland
By 1903, the Irish Socialist Republican Party, as it was called, had been almost completely extinguished in Dublin and Cork, the two centres in which it was established, [due] to an unrelenting personal persecution of its members by the Nationalist and Catholic reactionaries.
Many members of the Socialist Party participated in the struggle, some were killed in action: James Connolly, a wounded prisoner of war, was tried by court-martial which assembled around his bed, and placed in a chair, his arms and legs fastened by bandages to it and carried thus to the place of execution and shot.
The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union which now musters 130,000 members in the total of 250,000 organised in the Irish Labour Party and Trade Union Congress, affords the Socialist Party facilities for the circulation of this literature and for the conduct of oral propaganda.
www.workersrepublic.org /Pages/Ireland/Communism/spireport1.html   (2193 words)

  
 The Socialist Issue 255
IRISH SOCIALIST Party TD (MP) Joe Higgins was resoundingly re-elected to the Dail (Parliament) from his Dublin West constituency on 17 May. KEN SMITH who assisted in the campaign reports on our successes and the political background to the election.
Although Socialist Party members in Ireland were disappointed not to get Clare elected, they pointed out that this was a similar platform to Joe's near-success in the 1996 Dublin West by-election, from which the party went on to win a seat in 1997.
The Socialist Party's position is that the character of the Labour Party has fundamentally changed and that the FBU and other Left unions should take a lead in initiating a new mass workers' party.
www.socialistparty.org.uk /TheSocialistIssue255.htm   (6494 words)

  
 The Socialist Party Online - [CWI in Ireland]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Socialist Party is the only party in Ireland which fights for the interests of working class people against cuts, privatisation and falling living standards.
We are committed to a socialist society where all those who produce the wealth in society should be in control of how it is spent.
Irish Socialist Party Ireland Joe Higgins Clare Daly Mick Murphy Lisa Maher Mick Barry CWI Committee for a Worker's International James Connolly Lenin Trotsky Marx Engels Rosa Luxemburg Communist Manifesto Irish Socialist Party Ireland
www.socialistparty.net   (92 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)

  
 Socialist martyr / Features / Home - Morning Star
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.
Two events are being organised by the Communist Party of Britain and the Connolly Association to celebrate the life and work of the Irish trade union leader and revolutionary James Connolly, who was executed by the British authorities 90 years ago this year.
www.morningstaronline.co.uk /index2.php/ex/features/socialist_martyr   (1385 words)

  
 Irish Broad Front Movement
Any political parties which take their stand on one side or other of these contradictory standpoints, which is the case with all the major political parties in Northern Ireland, will always be repulsive to the other side.
The Socialist Party in Northern Ireland has played a very active role in opposing sectarianism especially in the ranks of the trade union movement and in the workplaces.
Socialist Party members have been instrumental in mobilising thousands of workers and their families in work stoppages and in public demonstrations in opposition to sectarian killings and to the threats and intimidation of sectarian paramilitaries.
larkspirit.com /broadfront/statements/socpartyspeech.html   (1271 words)

  
 Revolutionary Socialist Party: TUC Betrayed (1944)
The creation of the Council of Irish Unions inside of a body that was representative of the aspirations of the workers of the 32 Counties, regardless of the National origin of their organisations, was superfluous to say the least.
The far-seeing Irish bourgeoisie, as the bourgeoisie of all lands, visualise the sharpening class conflicts proceeding from Capitalism in its epoch of decay, are preparing for the inevitable social explosions that will characterise the immediate period ahead.
An Irish working-class in National isolation, its organisations controlled by autocratic ruling class agents of the O’Brien and Co. gender, would be completely defenceless in the face of the inevitable assaults that they intend to launch.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/irishtrots/tuc.htm   (1151 words)

  
 publish.nyc.indymedia.org | Irish Socialist Party condemns sectarian riot in Dublin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Irish Socialist Party condemns sectarian riot in Dublin
Irish parliamentarian and socialist leader Joe Higgins condemned the sectarian riot in Dublin.
The Socialist Party equally recognises the rights of others to indicate peaceful opposition to Love Ulster through disciplined protest, but they have no right to stop others marching as happened on Saturday in Dublin.
nyc.indymedia.org /en/2006/03/65876.html   (789 words)

  
 Irish Republican Socialist Party - Politics.ie Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Irish Republican Socialist Party is an all-Ireland socialist republican party.
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.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Irish_Republican_Socialist_Party   (85 words)

  
 Irish Democrat : Features : James Connolly, Irish socialist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
JAMES CONNOLLY was one of the outstanding figures of the British and Irish labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century.
Connolly's longest work, Labour in Irish History (1910), is a testimony and tribute to the four hundred-years struggle of the Irish labouring classes against British colonial rule in Ireland.
In Labour in Irish History he refers to the early Irish socialist William Thompson as "the forerunner of Karl Marx".
www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /features/james-connolly-irish-socialist   (1356 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 socialism
The Irish Republican Socialist Party is an organisation created by and for working class people, to aid working class liberation in Ireland and internationally with others who share that common goal.
The recognition of a separate Irish cultural identity and the establishment of revolutionary 32- county socialist republic.
As republican socialists we see the creation of a fighting 'rank and file' trade union movement as something that still holds potential and we support the building of a revolutionary shop stewards' movement.
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 Reply to a letter from the Irish Republicanism Socialist Party
Socialist Democracy have made no effort to convince anti-imperialists the virtue of SD politics or of the value of Marxism.
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.
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 - Irish Socialist
Although the Socialist Labor Party had invited him here in 1902 on a lecture tour and he was elected a member of their National Executive Committee, there was obvious jealousy displayed against him by their leader, Daniel De Leon, who could brook no opposition.
Connolly's position that the Irish Socialist Party represented a separate nation from Britain was recognized by the International Socialist Congress in 1900, and the Irish delegates were allowed to take their seats as such.
He felt keenly that not enough understanding and sympathy was shown by American Socialists for the cause of Ireland's national liberation, that the Irish workers here were too readily abandoned by the Socialists as ‘reactionaries’ and that there was not sufficient effort made to bring the message of socialism to the Irish-American workers.
www.workersrepublic.org /Pages/Ireland/Connolly/gurleyflynn2.html   (1419 words)

  
 Irish Socialist Network: Socialism in Ireland : ISN : Marxism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It could be argued that modern Irish socialism began with the establishment in 1872 of branches of the International Working Men's Association (or First International).
A year ago, the Irish Socialist Network made a submission to the Lord Mayors commission on crime and policing.
A successful picket was held by members of the ISN, Socialist Democracy, and others last Monday outside the headquarters of Ulster television in Belfast.
www.irishsocialist.net   (3845 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)

  
 JCS Archive: Irish Socialist Republic
Its social ideal, therefore, requires the public ownership by the Irish people of the land and instruments of production, distribution, and exchange to be held and controlled by a democratic state in the interests of the entire community.
But every Irish movement of the last 200 years has neglected one or the other of these equally necessary aspects of the national struggle.
The party which would aspire to lead the Irish people from bondage to freedom must then recognize both aspects of the long-continued struggle of the Irish Nation.
www.wageslave.org /jcs/archive/0803xx.html   (256 words)

  
 Famous Irish Lives - James Connolly
His Irish Catholic parents were poor, and Connolly worked from the age of eleven; in 1882, he falsified his age to join the army.
He founded and became secretary of the Irish Socialist Republican Party, and in 1898 launched the weekly Workers' Republic, exploiting the 1798 centenary to argue that only in a socialist republic could the ideals of Wolfe Tone be realised.
He was persuaded by the Irish Republican Brotherhood to support the 1916 rising, and about 120 ICA members took part.
www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/people/whoswho/connolly.shtm   (353 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
C/ It shall be the policy of the IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY to seek an active working alliance of all radical forces within the context of the Broad Front in order to ensure the ultimate success of the Irish Working Class in their struggle for Socialism.
THE IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY is not an abstentionist Party, and will decide its attitude towards the contesting of any particular election, on the basis of a thorough analysis of the conditions prevailing at the time.
As the vast majority of those involved in the formation of the IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY are people who have recently resigned from Sinn Féin (Gardiner Place), we feel it may be necessary to give a brief outline of the reasons for our resignations.
irelandsown.net /irpsfound.html   (998 words)

  
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The party was the forerunner and ideological springhead for a political tradition that has had a significant impact on radical Irish politics ever since.
The party produced the first regular socialist paper in Ireland the Workers' Republic, ran candidates in local elections, represented Ireland at the Second International, agitated over issues such as the Boer War and the 1798 commemorations.
Irish workers were also present in the ranks of demonstrators outside the Dail, which is an encouraging sign.
www.morrigan.net /irsm/plough85.htm   (4385 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)

  
 Socialist Appeal: Irish Militant Deported (1945)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Johnny Byrne, Irish militant working on the railway as a porter at Paddington, was refused an extension of his six monthly permit to remain in this country.
Johnny Byrne was an active member of the NUR into which he had recruited many Irish and other workers.
He was a delegate from his NUR Branch to the South Kensington Labour Party.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/irishtrots/johnbyrne2.htm   (200 words)

  
 2006 May - Socialist Party Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lucy Redler, a prominent member of Socialist Alternative, German sister organisation to the Socialist Party and currently the most prominent Marxist in Germany, was watched by around five million viewers when she appeared on the ?Sabine Christiansen?
Instead of the expected warm reception in Ireland for John Howard he was met with a bitter cold blast from Socialist Party MP Joe Higgins.
After forcing a debate in the Dail (Irish Parliament) last week calling on the invitation for Howard to address the sitting to be withdrawn, Higgins decided to boycott the speech and was joined by five other deputies.
www.socialistpartyaustralia.org /archives/2006/05   (519 words)

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