The Red Republican Party was a small socialist organisation in Ireland. It originated as a split from People's Democracy named the Left Revolutionary Group in the mid-1970s. In contrast to People's Democracy, it described the Ulster Loyalist movement as fascist, and it called for stronger support for paramilitary Irish republicanism. Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... Peoples Democracy was a political organisation that, while supporting the campaign for civil rights for Northern Irelands Catholic minority stated that such rights could only be achieved through the establishment of a socialist republic in all of Ireland. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Unionists (Ireland). ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... A paramilitary organization is a group of civilians trained and organised in a military fashion. ... Irish Republicanism is an ideology based on the Irish nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a united independent republic. ...

In 1976, the group changed its name to the "Red Republican Party", but was moribund by 1978. It published the journal Heads Up. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

References

• Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations