Irish Worker League

The Irish Worker League was an Irish communist party, established in September 1923 by Jim Larkin.

In July 1924 Larkin attended the Fifth Comintern congress, held in Moscow, and was elected to its executive committee. Initially, the League was not organised as a political party and had no founding congress. Its most prominent activity in its first year was to raise funds for republican civil war prisoners.

The IWL managed to enrol a number of its members in the Lenin School in Moscow. In September 1927, the IWL held a conference at which it passed a political programme.

Its sole electoral success was Larkin's election as Teachta Dála for the North Dublin constituency in the September 1927 general election. However, as a result of a libel award against him won by William O'Brien, which he had refused to pay, he was declared bankrupt and disqualified from taking up his seat.

The party's headquarters was located at Marlborough Street in Dublin.

Defunct political parties in Ireland
To 1918
  • All-for-Ireland League
  • Catholic Union
  • Home Government Association
  • Home Rule League
  • Independent Irish Party
  • Irish Conservative Party
  • Irish Liberal Party
  • Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society
  • Irish National Federation
  • Irish National League
  • Irish Parliamentary Party
  • Irish Patriot Party
  • Irish Reform Association
  • Irish Socialist Republican Party
  • Irish Unionist Alliance
  • National Association
  • Protestant Nationalist Party
  • Repeal Association
  • United Irish League
Post 1918
  • Ailtirí na hAiséirghe
  • All Ireland Anti-Partition League
  • Aontacht Éireann
  • British and Irish Communist Organisation
  • Business and Professional Group
  • Christian Centrist Party
  • Clann Éireann
  • Clann na Poblachta
  • Clann na Talmhan
  • Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist)
  • Córas na Poblachta
  • Cork Socialist Party
  • Cumann na nGaedheal
  • Cumann na Poblachta
  • Cumann Poblachta na hÉireann
  • Democratic Left
  • Democratic Socialist Party
  • Donegal Progressive Party
  • Farmers' Party
  • Fathers Rights-Responsibility Party
  • Independent Fianna Fáil
  • Independent Health Alliance
  • Irish Anti-Partition League
  • Irish Dominion League
  • Irish Independence Party
  • Irish Workers' Group
  • Irish Worker League
  • Irish Workers' Party (1926)
  • Irish Workers' Party (1948)
  • League for a Workers Republic
  • Libertas
  • Monetary Reform Party
  • Muintir na hÉireann
  • National Centre Party
  • National Corporate Party
  • National Labour Party
  • National League Party
  • National Party (1924)
  • National Party (1995)
  • National Progressive Democrats
  • Poblacht Chríostúil
  • Progressive Democrats
  • Republican Congress
  • Saor Éire
  • Sligo/Leitrim Independent Socialist Organisation
  • Socialist Labour Party
  • Socialist Party of Ireland
  • Workers League

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