Stickies

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Stickies is the nickname for the Official Irish Republican movement, a left-wing Irish republican organization that emerged from a split in the IRA in the late 1960s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Irish republican organisation
political nickname
alignedWith Workers' Party in later years
alsoKnownAs Official IRA NERFINISHED
Officials
appliesTo Official IRA NERFINISHED
Official Irish Republican movement NERFINISHED
armedWingOf Official republican movement NERFINISHED
associatedPoliticalWing Official Sinn Féin NERFINISHED
Workers' Party of Ireland NERFINISHED
associatedWithPeriod The Troubles NERFINISHED
ceasedMajorOperationsBy mid-1970s
conflictType involved in sectarian and political violence during the Troubles
country Ireland NERFINISHED
distinguishedFrom Provisional IRA NERFINISHED
Provisionals
emergedFromEvent split in the IRA over strategy and ideology
goal end of partition of Ireland
establishment of a socialist republic in Ireland
historicalContext Cold War-era Irish politics
ideology Irish republicanism
Marxism
left-wing politics
socialism
influencedBy Marxist–Leninist theory NERFINISHED
international communist movement
languageOfName English NERFINISHED
movementSplitFrom IRA NERFINISHED
Irish Republican Army NERFINISHED
nicknameOrigin use of stick-on paper Easter lilies
notableCharacteristic more Marxist and class-oriented than Provisional IRA
opposedTo British rule in Northern Ireland
organizationalNature paramilitary organisation
political movement
politicalPosition left-wing to far-left
positionOnBorder support for Irish reunification
primaryOpponents British Army in Northern Ireland NERFINISHED
Provisional IRA (rival republican faction) NERFINISHED
loyalist paramilitaries
reasonForNickname use of adhesive Easter lily badges instead of pinned ones
regionOfActivity Northern Ireland NERFINISHED
Republic of Ireland NERFINISHED
splitOccurredIn late 1960s
status largely inactive as an armed organisation
tactics armed struggle
political organisation
trade union activism
timeOfEmergence 1969
usedSymbol Easter lily NERFINISHED

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