CONFLICT
The Bloody Split of the OIRA and INLA
The Rise and Fall: From Revolutionary Promises to Sectarian Violence
With the beginning of "The Troubles" in 1968, a time of low intensity guerilla warfare in the occupied six counties of Northern Ireland, leftist politics played a varying role in every Irish republican paramilitary organization that would participate in the conflict up until today. This is contrasted with the conservative politics of the loyalist paramilitaries, which are those that support the United Kingdom and its role in controlling the North of Ireland. However, a rather unheard of paramilitary known as the Irish National Liberation Army would be responsible for some of the biggest attacks on both the British establishment, its proxies in Northern Ireland, and its supposed allies within the Irish republican movement itself.