Irish Republican Socialist Movement.
Origins of the IRSM
Most founding members of the Irish Republican Socialist Party and Irish National Liberation Army came out of the Official Irish Republican Movement. Provisional Sinn Fein and the Provisional IRA had split from what became known as the "Officials" in late 1969/early 1970, ostensibly over Sinn Fein's decision to drop its traditional position of abstentionism in regard to Dail Eireann (the parliament of the 26-county statelet), but the cleavage represented divisions of a deeper nature concerning the Officials analysis that the movement had to integrate its commitment to Ireland's national liberation with a revolutionary orientation towards the economic and social interests of the working class. Following the departure of the Provisionals, a section of the Officials' leadership used bureaucratic manipulation and subterfuge to cripple internal democracy, thereby permitting them to push through a ceasefire in mid-1972 and to steer a course towards political reformism. Thwarted in attempts to alter the direction of the Officials, its revolutionary socialist cadre left the movement en mass and, with like-minded independent activists, founded the Irish Republican Socialist Party and Irish National Liberation Army, December 10, 1974, to "Mobilise our class towards the objective of dis-establishing the Northern colonial and Southern neo-colonial statelets on this island, thus ending imperialism and capitalism, and preparing the basic structures for an Irish Workers' State."
The fledgling organisation was baptised in the blood of martyrs. From the beginning it has recieved bad publicity and been entailed in many a feud with different paramilitary organisations, namely that of the i.p.l.o, who were a break away group from the i.n.l.a and who were intent on the destruction of the socialist organisation. The i.p.l.o itself and all affiliated parties are now defunct. As is the Official i.r.a. The official i.r.a's political wing later renamed itself as The Workers Party and carry a predominantly socialist-marxist approach to their political anelogies...
The Republican Socialist Movement remains staunchly republican, they do not support the Good Friday Agreement as it believes it strengthens british imperialism on the thirty-two county island. They have struggled for almost thirty years.
