Socialist Workers Party (Ireland)
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Socialist Workers Party
Páirtí Sóisialach na nOibrithe |
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| Leader | Collective leadership (Central Committee) |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | 1 Galtymore Drive, Drimnagh, Dublin 8 |
| Ideology |
Trotskyism Democratic socialism United Ireland |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation |
People Before Profit Alliance United Left Alliance (pre-2013) |
| European affiliation | European Anticapitalist Left, European United Left-Nordic Green Left |
| International affiliation | International Socialist Tendency |
| Colours | Red, black, yellow |
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| www.swp.ie | |
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP; Irish: Páirtí Sóisialach na nOibrithe) is an Irish Trotskyist political party founded in 1971 as the Socialist Workers Movement (SWM). The party is a founding member of the People Before Profit Alliance and is a member of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left and International Socialist Tendency.
The SWP was founded in 1971 as the Socialist Workers Movement by supporters of the International Socialists of Britain (now called the SWP) living in Ireland, who had previously been members of People's Democracy, the Waterford Socialist Movement and the Young Socialists. Many of the members had been active in the new Socialist Labour Alliance. The SWM subsequently affiliated to the SLA, but soon left, claiming that the Alliance was organised to debate, rather than to campaign.
Some of those who joined the SWM after its formation sympathised with a small tendency in Britain and later split away to form the Irish Workers Group, which later became Workers Power. Meanwhile, the SWM grew on a modest scale and published a paper called The Worker.
When the Socialist Labour Party was founded in 1977, the SWM joined as a 'tendency' (or subgroup). The Socialist Workers Tendency was noted in the SLP for producing a bulletin more professional than that of the party. They left in 1980 to reform the Socialist Workers Movement.
The SWM was long overshadowed on the Irish left by organisations such as the Workers' Party, but the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Pact regimes after 1989 saw it grow. Unlike some Irish socialist groups, the SWM supported the revolutions of 1989 against what it saw as state capitalist dictatorships, contending that regimes such as the Soviet Union were not socialist but a form of state capitalism, directed not by corporations but by a Stalinist bureaucracy using the state.
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