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Social Democratic Labour Party

Great Britain · Politics / Labour Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1970

Gerry FittAugust 1970

Politics / Social Democratic Labour Party

Founded when six Stormont MPs and one Senator former members of the Republican Labour Party (a party with ties to the Irish Labour Party) the National Democratic Party (NDP

Gerry FittAugust 1970

Politics / Social Democratic Labour Party

The SDLP initially rejected the Nationalist Party's policy of abstentionism and sought to fight for civil rights within the Stormont system but the SDLP quickly comes to that Stormont is unreformable, and withdraws from Parliamentary involvement.

Gerry FittAugust 1970

Politics / Social Democratic Labour Party

a small nationalist party that dissolved itself after the foundation of the SDLP) individual nationalists former members of the Nationalist Party and members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party join to form a new party

Names involved

Gerry Fitt

Provenance

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