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The World Socialist Party (Ireland)〔World Socialist Party (Ireland) (1986). ''The Anglo-Irish Accord and it's Irrelevance for the Working Class''. Alternatively referred to as the World Socialist Party of Ireland.〕 was a Marxist political party in the Impossibilist tradition. The party was a companion party of the World Socialist Movement and was closely connected to the Socialist Party of Great Britain.〔Socialist Party of Great Britain and World Socialist Party of Ireland (1983), ''Ireland: Past, Present and Future''.〕 The World Socialist Party was founded as the Socialist Party of Ireland in 1949 before changing its name a decade later.〔('Discussion between Richard Montegue and Ciaran Crossey' (1987) )〕 The party's offices were in Belfast and it was most active in Northern Ireland, although it was active in the Republic too. The party participated in elections in Northern Ireland, without success.〔Richard Montague (2004) 'Northern Ireland: Our first election campaign'. Published in ''Socialist Standard''. Available here: (). Retrieved: 16/09/2014.〕 The party produced a newspaper, ''Socialist View''. It disbanded in the 1990s.〔David Marlborough (2007), 'Obituary: Sean Doherty'. Published in ''Socialist Standard''. Available here: (). Retrieved: 16/09/2014.〕 ==Political positions== As with all parties in the World Socialist Movement, the object of the World Socialist Party of Ireland was ''The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interests of the whole community''.〔Socialist Party of Ireland (1949), ''Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Ireland''.〕 The party was staunchly anti-Leninist. Along with its companion parties in the World Socialist Movement, it believed that socialism could only be established when the majority of the population decided that socialism was in their best interests, not through a revolutionary vanguard.〔''Manifesto''.〕 The party held that parliament could, and should, be used in the course of establishing a socialist society. The party stressed the limited nature of any reform within the capitalist system, saying of the Irish Labour Party that it 'serves capitalism just as faithfully as the other political parties, and as you cannot serve capitalism and the majority of the people at the same time, the Labour Party is as much to be condemned from the workers' viewpoint as the others. It does not and cannot act in the interests of the Irish working class.'〔''Manifesto'', p. 13.〕 The party articulated its views on Northern Ireland and the Troubles in two documents, ''Ireland: Past, Present and Future'' (1983) and ''The Anglo-Irish Accord and it's Irrelevance for the Working Class'' (1986). Like other Marxist parties, the World Socialist Party believed that the origins of the conflict lay in divide and rule tactics of the ruling class, of privileging Protestant workers over Catholic ones.〔''Anglo-Irish Accord'', p. 6.〕 Unlike many other parties of the left however, the World Socialist Party believed that nationalism and identity politics were no solution. Indeed, it was argued that this focus stood in the way of achieving socialism. Thus both republican and loyalist paramilitaries were considered to be 'fighting the bosses' battles'.〔''Ireland: Past, Present and Future'', p. 25.〕 The British government was denounced for participating in political terrorism while claiming to oppose it.〔''Ireland: Past, Present and Future'', p. 16.〕 The Catholic civil rights campaign was also seen as amounting to nothing more than an insistence that the miseries of capitalism be distributed equally among the working class without regard to religion, while something better could be created.〔''Ireland: Past, Present and Future'', p. 16.〕 The party did claim to oppose partition but only the partition 'between the rich and the poor, between the capitalist class and the working class'.〔''Socialist Standard'' (1999), '50 Years Ago: A Letter from Ireland'. Available here: (). Retrieved: 16/09/2014.〕 The World Socialist Party viewed the Irish War of Independence in much the same light as it viewed the later conflict in Northern Ireland, saying that as far as the working class was concerned, it only amounted to a change in masters.〔''Manifesto'', p. 7.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Socialist Party (Ireland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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