Red Patriot

Red Patriot
Type Weekly Newsletter
Format Newsletter
Owner(s) Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist)
Founded 1969
Political alignment Marxist-Leninist
Maoist(1969-78)
Hoxhaism(1978-84)
Ceased publication 1984

Red Patriot was a publication by the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist), it articulated an anti-revisionist outlook on Irish politics and Marxist-Leninist agenda.[1] Initially Maoist the CPI-ML moved away from Mao and sided with an Albanian articulation of Communism - Hoxhaism.[2] Initially published by the forerunner to the CPI-ML, Irish Revolutionary Youth and launched in 1969,[3] It was produced irregularly throughout the partys history, sometimes as a weekly, sometimes monthly, it was relanuched in 1982 after two years unpublished on the partys twelfth anniversary. It was replaced in 1984 by The Voice of Revolution itself replaced by Marxist-Leninist Weekly.

References

  1. Red Parrot Vol. 6, No 3/4, August 1st, 1982.
  2. 'Irish Maoism - Maoism in the Developed World' By Robert Jackson Alexander
  3. Communisty Party of Ireland Marxist Leninist www.marxist.org.
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