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'''Republican communism''' is a variant of [[republicanism]] that advocates independent communist states in countries such as [[Ireland]] and [[Scotland]].

The Republican movement itself has been historically large in Ireland for centuries and present but less dominant in Scotland. "Republican Communists" usually more likely to describe themselves as Republican Socialists or Socialist Republicans have advocated a mixture of republican policies (independence from England, [[equal rights]] and elected government) combined with [[Marxist-Leninist|Marxism-Leninism]] or Communist economics. They have always represented a minority faction in Irish and Scottish republican politics. [[James Connolly]], the Scottish born Irish Republican rebel is often considered an ideological father of the movement.

Examples of Socialist Republican groups from Ireland are:

*[[Irish Citizen's Army]] - a paramilitary organized by James Connolly which took part in the [[Easter Rising]] of [[1916]]
*[[Irish Socialist Republican Party]] - a political party founded by James Connolly
*[[Irish Republican Socialist Party]] - a political party which split from the [[Official Sinn Fein]] in [[1974]] and claims to represent the values of James Connolly
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*[[Scottish Republican Socialist Movement]] - was a political party which advocated an independent and communist Scotland from 1974 to 1998. Afterwards the SRSM allied with the Scottish Socialist Party, that link was broken in 2005 and now it claims to be an independent and cross party organization. 

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