Back Partit dels Treballadors d'Irlanda Catalan Workers’ Party of Ireland German Partido de los Trabajadores de Irlanda Spanish Irlandako Langileen Alderdia Basque Parti des travailleurs d'Irlande French Páirtí na nOibrithe Irish Partito dei Lavoratori (Irlanda) Italian The Workers' Party Dutch Partido dos Trabalhadores da Irlanda Portuguese Рабочая партия Ирландии Russian
The Workers' Party Páirtí na nOibrithe | |
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| President | Michael McCorry[1] (disputed) |
| Founded | 28 November 1905 (original form) 17 January 1970 (current form)[a] |
| Split from | Sinn Féin |
| Headquarters | 8 Cabra Road, Dublin 7, Ireland |
| Youth wing | Workers' Party Youth[2] |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Irish republicanism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| European affiliation | INITIATIVE (2013–2023) ECA (2023–present)[3] |
| International affiliation | IMCWP WAP |
| Colours | Red |
| Local government in the Republic of Ireland | 0 / 949 |
| Website | |
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The Workers' Party (Irish: Páirtí na nOibrithe) is an Irish republican, Marxist–Leninist communist party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.[4][5]
The party formerly asserted a claim of direct descent from the original Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith. It took its current form in 1970 following a division within the party, in which the majority faction followed the leadership in a Marxist direction. It was known as "Sinn Féin (Gardiner Place)" or "Official Sinn Féin", to distinguish it from the minority faction of "Sinn Féin (Kevin Street)" or "Provisional Sinn Féin". The party name of Official Sinn Féin was changed to Sinn Féin – The Workers' Party in 1977 and then to the Workers' Party in 1982. In that time, Provisional Sinn Féin came to be known simply as Sinn Féin. Both groups were tied to corresponding paramilitary groups, with Official Sinn Féin tied to the Official Irish Republican Army.
By the late 1980s, the party had broken through electorally in the Republic of Ireland and at its peak following the 1989 Irish general election and 1991 Irish local elections it had 7 Teachta Dála in Dáil Eireann and 24 county councillors. However, following the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, almost all the party's elected membership broke away and formed Democratic Left in 1992. Since 1992 the party has existed as a microparty. A 2021 splint in the party left the group without any elected representatives anywhere on the island of Ireland.
- ^ "Governing Structure of the Workers' Party".
- ^ "WFDY – CENA Member Organizations". World Federation of Democratic Youth. June 2015. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ "European Communist Action's Founding Declaration". 27 November 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ "Register of Political Parties in Ireland". Houses of the Oireachtas. 23 November 2010. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ "NI Register of Political Parties". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 17 September 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
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