Back Showing posts tagged #spgb

Irish Left Archive's avatar
@ila@leftarchive.ie

in 1949, the Socialist Party of Ireland was founded:

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.

This Socialist Party of Ireland was associated with the SPGB and later became the World Socialist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/28/#event-4500

On This Day, 28th May

Irish Left Archive

Scan of the preface to the Socialist Party of Ireland Manifesto (1949).
Irish Left Archive's avatar
Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ie

28th May 1949, the Socialist Party of Ireland was founded.

"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."

The party was associated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) and later became the World Socialist Party.

https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/05/28/#event-4500

On This Day, 28th May

Irish Left Archive

Image of text reading: The Socialist Party of Ireland object:

The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the whole community.
Irish Left Archive's avatar
Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ie

For an overview of materials from the British left on Ireland, we've gathered documents from several strands – including Labour, Trotskyist groups, CPGB and other communists, Maoists, SPGB and others – in this document collection: https://www.leftarchive.ie/collection/2835/

Document Collection: The British Left on Ireland

Irish Left Archive

Irish Left Archive's avatar
Irish Left Archive
@ila@leftarchive.ie

The next Socialist Party of Ireland was formed in Belfast and Dublin on 28th May 1949. It was associated with the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) and the World Socialist Movement, a Classical Marxist left movement. (Sometimes associated with impossibilism, though the SPGB reject the term).

The 1949 SPI later became the World Socialist Party.

Here's their manifesto: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/419/

3/6

Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Ireland with Declaration of Principles (1949) — Socialist Party of Ireland [1949]

Irish Left Archive

Scanned text reading: The Socialist Party of Ireland object: The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the whole community.