Socialist Labour Alliance
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The Socialist Labour Alliance was a
far left political alliance in Ireland, seen by some of its members as a political party in process of formation. It was initiated in 1970 by the Socialist Labour Action Group (SLAG), composed of members of the Labour Party, including the Young Socialists
, campaigning for a more left wing programme.
In 1971 the inaugural conference took place in Dublin. The Alliance included individual members as well as
Socialist Workers' Movement (SWM) and the Revolutionary Marxist Group.[1]
The SWM soon disaffiliated on the grounds that it found the Alliance a debating group rather than a campaigning organisation, leaving the remaining groups to dissolve it.
Notes
- ^ Goodwillie, John (August/September 1983). "Glossary of the Left in Ireland". Gralton: an Irish Socialist Review 9: 17-20.