Irish Workers' Group (1976)
Irish Workers Group | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1976 |
| Split from | Political parties |
- See Irish Workers' Group for the Irish Workers' Group which was active in the 1960s.
The Irish Workers Group was a small
political group in Ireland
.
The party was formed in 1976 as a breakaway from the
Socialist Workers' Movement, taking a more rigorously Trotskyist line [1] and stronger position on the North and women's rights.[2] It was affiliated to the League for the Fifth International
(L5I).
The group was active in several places in Ireland, notably
Real IRA
.
When the
Permanent Revolution
group in the UK.
A small group called Workers Power, briefly active in the mid-2000s, remained affiliated with the L5I, but does not appear to have been directly connected with the Irish Workers' Group.[4]
Notes
- ^ Goodwillie, John (Aug/Sept 1983). "Glossary of the Left in Ireland". Gralton: an Irish Socialist Review 9: 17-20.
- ^ Magill, 1977
- ^ Class Struggle - Irish Left Archive
- ^ Workers' Power Ireland Blog [Archived]
