Sinn Fein and the Politics of Left Republicanism

Eoin O'Broin
Pluto Books Ltd
 9780745324623
0-7453-2462-2

Sinn Fin is a growing force in Irish politics. Now the country's third largest party, Sinn Fin have been one of the central architects of the peace process and are increasingly setting the terms of political.

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debate in Ireland north and south. Despite this, the party remains much misunderstood and often misrepresented. In Sinn Fin & The Politics of Left Republicanism, Sinn Fin activist Eoin Broin explores the ideological and organisational origins of the party, charts their history and recent political development and assesses their possible futures. He argues that Sinn Fin is part of a distinct left-republican tradition in Irish society whose future lies in the globally resurgent radical democratic left.