Democratic Socialist Party (Ireland)
Democratic Socialist Party An Páirtí Sóisialach Daonlathach | |
|---|---|
| Founder and leader | Jim Kemmy |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Dissolved | 1990 |
| Merger of | Limerick Socialist Organisation Socialist Party of Ireland |
| Merged into | Labour Party |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism Secularism Anti-nationalism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) was a small left-wing political party in Ireland. The party was formed by a merger of the Socialist Party of Ireland with Jim Kemmy's Limerick Socialist Organisation. Kemmy was a member of Dáil Éireann who left the Labour Party in 1972. A number of members of the British and Irish Communist Organisation also joined the party.