Irish Left Archive: "#OnThisDay, 28th May 1949, the Socialist Party..."

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#OnThisDay, 28th May 1949, the Socialist Party of Ireland (SPI) was formed.

The SPI was associated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPBG) and World Socialist Movement. It was later succeeded by the World Socialist Party.

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On This Day, 28th May

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The Socialist Party of Ireland was founded in 1949, associated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain and World Socialist Movement.

As stated in the preface to their 1949 manifesto:

On May 28th, 1949, a number of workers, representing Socialist Groups in Dublin and Belfast, met in Belfast and decided that the Groups should coalesce and form the Socialist Party of Ireland. That decision was subsequently ratified by the members of the Dublin and Belfast Groups; and so was born the first political party in Ireland to publicly and unequivocally declare its object to be the establishment of Socialism.

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The 1949 SPI is not associated with the 1970s SPI or the current Socialist Party, which both come from discrete political traditions.