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Irish Workers' Group
:''See Irish Workers' Group (1976) for the Irish Workers' Group which was a member of the League for a Fifth International.'' The Irish Workers' Group (IWG) was a Marxist political party in Ireland. It originated as the Irish Workers Union, which later called itself the Irish Communist Group,See'' International Trotskyism, 1929-1985'' by Robert Jackson Alexander, Duke University Press, 1991 (pg. 570). and contained a variety of people who all considered themselves to be Marxists. Some were from an Irish Republican background, and some, including Gerry Lawless,"''In 1965 he awlessset up the Irish Workers Group (IWG), the first Irish Trotskyist group since the 1940s. The IWG was small, but politically formative for a number of people who subsequently played significant roles in the Irish left – in particular, the leaders of People’s Democracy in the North.''Maverick socialist whose charm won him friends in unlikely places(Obituary of Gerald Lawless). ''The Irish Times'', 28 Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Workers' Group (1976)
:''See Irish Workers' Group for the Irish Workers' Group which was active in the 1960s.'' The Irish Workers Group was a small Trotskyist political group in Ireland. The party was formed in 1976 as a breakaway from the Socialist Workers' Movement, taking a more rigorously Trotskyist line and stronger position on the North and women's rights. It was affiliated to the League for the Fifth International (L5I). The group was active in several places in Ireland, notably Dublin, Derry and Galway, and published a magazine called ''Class Struggle'' between 1977 and 1995, as well as publications on James Connolly, the Irish question and the Troubles, where they shared the position of Workers Power in Great Britain, giving unconditional support to the Provisional Irish Republican Army and opposing the Good Friday Agreement. They criticised what they deemed as the nationalist and centrist Marxism positions of other groups on the Irish left, such as the League for a Workers Republic, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |