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Socialist Workers Party (Ireland)The Socialist Workers Party (Ireland) is an Irish, Trotskyist political party. It was originally founded in 1971 as the Socialist Workers Movement by supporters of the International Socialists of Britain (now called the SWP) living in Ireland. The original leadership of the SWM (Ireland) left in sympathy with a small tendency in Britain and formed the Irish Workers Group which is now part of the League for the Fifth International and very tiny. Meanwhile the SWM grew steadily and published a paper called The Worker. When the Socialist Labour Party was founded in the late 1970s SWM joined as a tendency. The Socialist Workers Tendency was noted in the SLP for producing a bulletin more professional than that of the party. As the SLP collapsed they left to reform the Socialist Workers Movement. The SWM has gradually grown and has branches in most cities and towns in Ireland and is now known as the Socialist Workers Party. Its best known member is Eamonn McCann the radical journalist. Politics The SWP (Ireland) believes in the necessity of revolution to bring about fundamental change namely to achieve what it calls 'Economic democracy' i.e. control by the people over work places and schools. As they put it "We need workers' control of the factories and offices so that the majority of people make democratic decisions about the issues that directly affect them." http://www.swp.ie/html/socialism.htm They argue that in Northern Ireland there is far more uniting Catholic workers and Protestant workers than dividing them. They believe that working class unity can only be built if Protestants turn their back on loyalist ideas, which promote their superiority, and Catholic workers reject the idea of a 'pan-nationalist alliance'. They support a united (socialist) Ireland. http://www.swp.ie/html/oppression.htm The SWP is part of the International Socialist Tendency grouping. External link
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