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Revolutionary Marxist Groups in Ireland.

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Friday December 13, 2002 02:35author by Wayne Lee, B. A.author email wlee at hotmail dot com

Hi! I am a post graduate student in the Politics Department of the University of New Hampsire. I am studying revolutionary marxist groups in Europe. I am looking for a list of Revolutionary Marxist groups that exist in Ireland. If there are any more than the ones I have below please add them.

SOCIALIST PARTY: Trotskyists, formerly Militant Tendency of Labour Party, Irish section of the Committee for a Workers' International.

SOCIALIST WORKERS' PARTY: Cliffist Trotskyists, Irish section of International Socialist Tendency.

WORKERS' PARTY: Left-Populist, the majority group after a split in Sinn Féin.

COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND: Stalinists.

COMMUNIST PARTY OF IRELAND (MARXIST-LENINIST): Maoists

SPARTACIST LEAGUE IRELAND: Doctrinaire Trotskyists, Irish section of International Communist League.

SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: Mandelist Trotskyists, Irish section of USFI.

IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY: left-wing Physical-Force Nationalists

SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE: Trotskyists, a small right-wing split from the SWP in 2002.

SOCIALIST APPEAL: Grantist Trotskyists, unknown if they have many members in Ireland, still persuing entryist tactics in Social Democratic Parties.

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