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The '''Workers' Party''', formerly '''Official Sinn Féin''' and later '''Sinn Féin-The Worker's Party''', is an [[Irish Republican]] [[Marxist-Leninist]] political party in Ireland. It was the smaller faction of the [[1969/1970 Irish Republican Split]] over the issue of abstentionism, in which it followed an electoralist (in the Irish Republican sense) and explicitly Marxist-Leninist path. It maintains a minor presence today.<ref>{{Web citation|author=MÍCHEÁL MAC DONNCHA|newspaper=An Phoblacht|title=The Republican Movement split of 1969/1970|date=2020-01-09|url=https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/27727}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=The Workers Party|title=Policy|url=https://workersparty.ie/policy/}}</ref>  
The '''Workers' Party''', formerly '''Official Sinn Féin''' and later '''Sinn Féin-The Worker's Party''', is an [[Irish Republican]] [[Marxist-Leninist]] political party in Ireland. It was the smaller faction of the [[1969/1970 Irish Republican Split]] over the issue of abstentionism, in which it followed an electoralist (in the Irish Republican sense) and explicitly Marxist-Leninist path. It maintains a minor presence today.<ref>{{Web citation|author=MÍCHEÁL MAC DONNCHA|newspaper=An Phoblacht|title=The Republican Movement split of 1969/1970|date=2020-01-09|url=https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/27727}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=The Workers Party|title=Policy|url=https://workersparty.ie/policy/}}</ref>  

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The Workers' Party

Páirtí na nOibrithe
PresidentMichael McCorry
FoundedJanuary 17, 1970
Preceded byAnti-Treaty Sinn Féin
Youth wingWorkers' Party Youth
Military WingOfficial Irish Republican Army (until 1990s)
Political orientationIrish Republicanism
Marxism-Leninism
Electoralism (Irish Republican)
Secularism
Environmentalism
Anti-Imperialism
Website
workersparty.ie

The Workers' Party, formerly Official Sinn Féin and later Sinn Féin-The Worker's Party, is an Irish Republican Marxist-Leninist political party in Ireland. It was the smaller faction of the 1969/1970 Irish Republican Split over the issue of abstentionism, in which it followed an electoralist (in the Irish Republican sense) and explicitly Marxist-Leninist path. It maintains a minor presence today.[1][2]

References

  1. MÍCHEÁL MAC DONNCHA (2020-01-09). "The Republican Movement split of 1969/1970" An Phoblacht.
  2. "Policy". The Workers Party.