- Workers Power (Ireland)
Workers Power is a small
Trotskyist political group inIreland .The party was founded as the Irish Workers Group, which developed as a factional grouping in the
Socialist Workers' Movement in the 1970s. It was formed as a separate organisation after being expelled from that group in 1976. It affiliated to theLeague for the Fifth International (L5I). By the 2000s, it had ceased producing "Class Struggle", its publication, instead distributing the publications of the Workers Power group in Britain.The group was active in several places in Ireland, notably
Dublin ,Derry andGalway , and, amongst others, published a book onJames Connolly . They also wrote extensively on theIrish question and theTroubles , where they shared the position of Workers Power in Great Britain, giving unconditional support to theProvisional Irish Republican Army and opposing theGood Friday Agreement . They criticised what they deemed as thenationalist andcentrist positions of other groups on the Irish left, such as theLeague for a Workers Republic ,Socialist Democracy and theSocialist Workers Movement on this question. Up until this day, they stand for the defence of what they perceive as the forces fighting Britishimperialism , such as theContinuity IRA and theReal IRA .In 2006, most of the Irish supporters of the L5I were expelled along with the Permanent Revolution group in the UK. As of 2007, some Irish supporters and members of the L5I still maintain a small scale activity in Dublin, some of these from the Swedish group.
External links
* [http://www.rebelnation.com/wp Workers Power Ireland website]
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