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Official Sinn Féin (aka "Sinn Féin the Workers Party") evolved from the split in Sinn Féin and the IRA that took place in 1970.-1...
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Sinn Féin split of 1970
The leadership of both Sinn Féin and the IRA had developed a Marxist outlook that became unpopular with many more traditionalist nationalists/republicans; and the party/army leadership was criticized for failing to defend northern Catholic enclaves from loyalist attacks. A large segment of the party set up their own Provisional Army Council in late 1969 to address these concerns and draft a new party policy; however, at the January 1970 party assembly, the "Provisionals" failed to secure the necessary votes to change the party direction. Immediately, the Provisionals left the existing party, thereby forming the Provisional Sinn Féin and Provisional IRA. The remainder of the party became known as Official Sinn Féin. Similarly, the associated paramilitary group was referred to as the Official IRA and the movement as a whole as the official republican movement, or informally the Officials or Stickies. Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ...
For the township in Canada, see Loyalist, Ontario In general, a loyalist is an individual who is loyal to the powers that be. ...
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1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland , and (iii) the creation of an all...
The term Official IRA relates to one of the two elements of the Irish Republican Army - the other being the Provisional IRA - that emerged from the ideological split in the Irish Republican movement in 1969-70. ...
Official Sinn Féin - from republican militancy to Marxist politics The official republican movement gradually stepped down its military campaign against the United Kingdom's armed forces presence in Northern Ireland, declaring a ceasefire in 1972, and focused on electoral activity. It suffered a further split in 1974, when members dissatisfied with the ceasefire established the Irish National Liberation Army and its associated political party the Irish Republican Socialist Party. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent...
Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ...
1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) was formed on 8 December 1974 as the military wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (a political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), was formed the same day) by Seamus Costello and other activists who had left or been forced out of...
Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) describes itself as a republican socialist party and claims to be both Marxist and Republican. ...
Politically, Official Sinn Féin evolved towards Marxism-Leninism and became fiercely critical of the physical force republican tradition still espoused by Provisional Sinn Féin. Its new approach to the Northern conflict was typified by the slogan it was to adopt: "Peace, Democracy, Class Politics". It aimed to replace sectarian politics with a class struggle which would unite Catholic and Protestant workers. The slogan's echo of Lenin's "Peace, Bread, Land" was indicative of the party's new source of inspiration. Official Sinn Féin also built up fraternal relations with communist parties worldwide. In 1977 it changed its name to Sinn Féin The Workers Party and then in 1982 to The Workers Party. From 1982 on it had some electoral success in the Republic of Ireland but little in the North. Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ...
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин listen?), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) (April 22 (April 10 (O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the founder of the ideology of Leninism. ...
Communism is a term that can refer to one of several things: a social and economic system, an ideology which supports that system, or a political movement that wishes to implement that system. ...
For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January-February January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British...
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The Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official description of an independent state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. ...
In 1992, in the wake of media claims that the Official IRA was still operating and in an atmosphere of ideological disagreement after the collapse of Soviet-style socialism, six of the Workers Party's seven Teachtaí Dála (members of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas or Irish Parliament) left to form a new party, Democratic Left, which in 1997 merged with the Irish Labour Party. Since the split with Democratic Left, the Workers Party has re-emphasised its Marxist-Leninist outlook, while also placing more emphasis than before on its republican tradition and origins. Since the 1992 general election, the Workers Party has had no representation in Dáil Éireann, although it has contested most recent national and local elections in both the Republic and Northern Ireland. Dáil Éireann is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland1. ...
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In Ireland, Democratic Left was a socialist political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between 1992 and 1997. ...
Logo of the Irish Labour Party The Irish Labour Party (Irish: Páirti an Lucht Oibre) is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. ...
Provisional Sinn Féin, the other party to emerge from the 1970 split, is the party that is now commonly referred to simply as Sinn Féin. They have had much greater electoral success than Official Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland. However, their electoral performance in the Republic was poor until the IRA ceasefire of 1997.
The official republican movement was nicknamed the "Stickies" for wearing stick-on "Easter lily" badges on their lapels in remembrance of the 1916 Easter Rising. The competing badges produced by the Provisionals were pinned on, but the nickname "pinhead" did not gain much currency. 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ...
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Casca) was a militarily unsuccessful rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday in April 1916. ...
Further reading - The Politics of Illusion: A Political History of the IRA, Henry Patterson, ISBN 1-897959-31-1
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