Irish Left Archive

#OnThisDay 15th March 1970, the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) was reconstituted, with the merging of the Irish Workers’ Party (IWP) and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI).

The party had divided in 1941 amid tensions over the entry of the Soviet Union into the second world war.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/on-this-day/03/15/#event-5791

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Irish Workers' Road to Freedom — Manifesto of the Irish Workers' League

From 1949. The IWL was active in the Republic of Ireland, and took the place of the dissolved Communist Party of Ireland (CPI).

Later called the Irish Workers' Party, it merged with the Communist Party of Northern Ireland to re-found the CPI in 1970.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1850/

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The first Socialist Party of Ireland formed in the 1900s to continue James Connolly's Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP) after it collapsed. It briefly became the first Communist Party of Ireland in the 1920s, until the Comintern ordered its dissolution in favour of James Larkin's Irish Worker League.

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