This party for some reason seems to be given some academic recognition and respect. Its hard to understand given their analysis on other issues. I remember talking to some (not young) party members around 1980 at their stall under the GPO and afterwards for a drink and they seemed to revel in being out on a limb in the positions they were taking. They were more hardline stalinist than any of the official communist positions at the time. They believed as genuine for example the testimonies of the accused in the showtrials in the USSR during the 1930s. They were unabashed about supporting Pol Pot and this after the Vietnamese invasion and exposure of the atrocities. Slightly less controversial, for a neuclear power station to be built at Carnsore.
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