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The Socialist Workers Party (Ireland) was originally founded in 1971 as the Socialist Workers Movement by supporters of the International Socialists of Britain 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.
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