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#OnThisDay 12th of June 1982, the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) voted to dissolve.

Founded in 1977, the SLP sought to build a party of the Left, bringing together former Labour members and Left groups, which joined as tendencies — the Socialist Workers’ Movement (SWM), League for a Workers’ Republic, Irish Workers Group, and Movement for a Socialist Republic; though all left the SLP within a few years (with the SWM tendency leaving last in 1980).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/12/#event-5555

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#OnThisDay 14th of October 1967:

Labour party leader Brendan Corish delivered his "New Republic" speech, famously opening with “the seventies will be Socialist”.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/10/14/#event-5538

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#OnThisDay 12th of June 1982, the Socialist Labour Party was dissolved.

Founded in 1977, the SLP sought to build a party of the Left, bringing together former Labour members and Left groups, which joined as tendencies — the Socialist Workers’ Movement (SWM), League for a Workers’ Republic, Irish Workers Group, and Movement for a Socialist Republic; though all left the SLP within a few years (with the SWM tendency leaving last in 1980).

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/12/#event-5555

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For Unity and Socialism: Manifesto of the Communist Party of Ireland

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/2115/

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"Socialists, Republicanism and the Armed Struggle"

A pamphlet by Kieran Allen for the Socialist Workers' Movement, 1991.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/296/

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The Socialist Party is a name that has been used at different times by unrelated groups in Ireland, from the early 20th Century to the present, and from a number of strands of the left.

Here's a thread on the various Socialist Parties in Ireland

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"Socialist Workers Movement 1971-1977"

An outline of the history of the Socialist Workers Movement, and their decision to join the Socialist Labour Party (forming the Socialist Workers Tendency).

From Socialist Worker Review, No. 1, 1978.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/3931/?page=19

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Great to see that the very useful archive of The Worker, later Socialist Worker — the newspaper of the Socialist Workers’ Movement (SWM) and Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) — has been further expanded.

It now includes scans of the first volume of the paper from 1972–1977, when it ceased publication during the period in which the SWM joined the Socialist Labour Party (SLP); and the second volume, which ran from 1980–1984.

The site is working towards adding the remaining issues from the 1980s, which would make it a near-complete archive of the paper from 1972–2018.

https://issuu.com/swonline

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