1 The Patriot Game
2 Army of the People: 1962-1968
3 A New Revolution
4 1969: Backlash
5 Defence and Retaliation
6 Civil Rights not Civil War
7 Towards the Revolutionary Party
8 'Brothers Fighting Brothers'
9 The 'Pogrom'
10 A Historic Mission
11 Peace, Work and Class Politics
12 Group B
13 Hunger Strikes, Haughey and Heroin
14 Fight Back!
15 Workers Unite!
16 Special Activities
17 The Flight from Socialism
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
Index
The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers' Party's eventual rejection of irredentism. A roll-call of influential personalities in the fields of politics, trade unionism and media - many still operating at the highest levels of Irish public life - passed though the ranks of this secretive movement, which never achieved its objectives but had a lasting effect on the landscape of Irish politics. The story of this protean movement is told here for the first time, in a work of ground-breaking scholarship and gripping narrative