> And Dublin elected a marxist and trotskyite (beating Fianna Fail and Sinn
> Fein).
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That would be Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party - the Irish section of the
Trotskyist Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), an offshoot of the
old Militant Tendency in Britain, which enjoyed significant influence in the
British Labour Party in the early 80's when Micheal Foot was leader before
the MT was subsequently purged by Foot's successor, Neil Kinnock.
See: http://www.joehiggins.eu/socialist-party/