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The Irish Socialist was a monthly newspaper produced by the
Communist Party of Ireland The Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) is a Marxist–Leninist party, founded in 1970 and active in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following a merger of the Irish Workers' Party and the Communist Party of Northern Ireland. It ra ...
, originally published starting in December 1965 by the '' Irish Workers' Party'' prior to its merger with the Communist Party of Northern Ireland and relaunch as the Communist Party of Ireland. Contributors to the newspaper included
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, Betty Sinclair,
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, John McDonnell,
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, Mick O'Reilly, Eugene McCartan and John Montegomery. The party also published the ''Irish Socialist Review'' quarterly and the youth movement produced a magazine called ''Forward''. It was published from 37 Pembroke Lane, before being published from ''New Books'', 16A Pearse St, then 14 Parliament Street, Dublin and then ''Connolly Books'', East Essex Street, in Dublin, and printed by Dorset Press. The Communist Party of Ireland's current official newspaper is the '' Socialist Voice.''


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