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Like their comrades in the Socialist Party of England and Wales, in the 1970s and 1980s members of the organisation practiced entryism in the Irish Labour Party. In the early 1990s many of its members were expelled from Labour, and it was at this point they adopted the name Militant Labour.
In the 1997 election, they returned one TD to Dáil Éireann - Joe Higgins (Dublin West) who became prominent during the Anti-Water Charges Campaign.
In the 2002 election Joe Higgins retained his seat, and in the Dublin North constituency Clare Daly narrowly missed out on a second socialist seat.
In Autumn 2003 the Socialist Party were all over the Irish media, as both Joe Higgins and Clare Daly had been sent to Mountjoy Prison for a month for refusing to abide by an Irish High CourtThis article is about courts of law . For alternative meanings see: Court (disambiguation). A court is an official, public forum which a public power establishes by lawful authority to adjudicate disputes, and to dispense civil, labour, administrative and injunction relating to the blockading of bin lorries. This was part of the Anti-Bin Tax Campiagn . Other members (along with people from other parties, and non-aligned activists) also went to prison for varying amounts of time for similar reasons.
The Socialist Party is organised in both the Republic of IrelandThe Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hEireann is the common term for a state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of northwest Europe. It is the western-most state of the European Union. The remaining sixt and Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland is the smallest of the Home Nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland lies in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It covers 14,139 square kilometres (5,459 square miles), and has a populati. They produce a monthly newspaper called The Socialist (formerly Socialist Voice, The Voice, and Militant) and an irregular theoretical journal called Socialist View (formerly Socialism 2000)
Not to be confused with the Irish Republican Socialist PartyIrish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) describes itself as a Republican Socialist Party and claims to be both Marxist and Nationalist. It publishs the Starry Plough newspaper. Like almost all political parties in Ireland from Fianna Fail to Labour and Si or the Socialist Workers Party .