Revolutionary Marxist Group was a Trotskyist organization in Ireland during the 1970s.[1]
Its origins lay in the 1971 split of United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) supporters from the League for a Workers Republic. Many of the initial group had formerly been in the Young Socialists, along with some others who attended discussion meetings (such as Charlie Bird and Butch Roche) but who tended to drop off later when the RMG name was adopted and democratic centralism set in. In 1972, they joined with a loose grouping in Belfast to form the Revolutionary Marxist Group, mainly under the influence of Raynor Lysaght and Anne Speed, and her then partner. In 1974, the organisation affiliated to the USFI.[2]
The theoretical journal of the group was Marxist Review.[3] The group focussed on supporting a united Ireland and on gaining influence in the student movement.[2]
In 1976, the group changed its name to the Movement for a Socialist Republic, and in 1978 it joined Socialist Democracy.[2]
References
- ^ http://www.trotskyana.net/LubitzBibliographies/Serials_Bibliography/zsn-bibl_index_org_affil.pdf
- ^ a b c Robert Jackson Anderson, International Trotskyism, 1929-1985
- ^ Report of the Socialist Party of Ireland
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