The Republican Socialist Collective was a fringe

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political group in

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formed in 1986. The RSC was formed at the behest of Jimmy Brown to serve as the political arm of the

Irish People's Liberation Organisation The Irish People's Liberation Organisation was a small Irish socialist republican paramilitary organisation formed in 1986 by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), whose factions coalesced in the after ...

, a splinter group of the

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formed by Gerard Steenson, Jimmy Brown and Martin 'Rook' O'Prey. Ideologically the group endorsed a militant brand of

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. Although the party did not take part in any elections it did organise a number of public meetings and debates in

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and

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. It was disestablished at the end of October 1992 when the Provisional IRA eliminated the IPLO, whilst Brown was killed earlier in August by a rival faction within the IPLO shortly before an internal feud began. The group also published a quarterly newspaper called the ''Socialist Republican''.

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