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Socialist Party Archive - North: Workers Take Action Against Sectarian Threats (Aug 02) (645 words) |
 | At an emergency meeting of NIPSA union Branch 705, it was unanimously decided to organise a one-day stoppage, and to call a public rally in Belfast city centre. |
| Socialist Party member, Kevin Lawrenson, spoke at the end of the rally congratulating his fellow workers for taking a principled stand against sectarianism and demanded that the trade union movement should follow up this initiative by taking independent action against sectarianism. |
| Socialist Party members ran a street stall in the city centre on the morning of the rally emphasising the need for independent action by the trade unions to oppose all sectarian attacks on both communities. |
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Centre Party (Ireland) - definition of Centre Party (Ireland) in Encyclopedia (107 words) |
| The Centre Party was a political party in the Irish Free State in the early 1930s. |
| It was jointly led by Frank MacDermott and James Dillon, the later of whom was the son of the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, John Dillon. |
| The Centre Party merged with Cumann na nGaedheal and the Army Comrades Association to form Fine Gael, the main Irish opposition party, in 1933. |
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