Federation of Labour (Ireland)

Northern Irish political party

The Federation of Labour (Ireland) was a small nationalist political party in Northern Ireland.

It was founded in 1944 by much of the Belfast West branch of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), opposed to that group's acceptance of the partition of Ireland and movement towards unionism.

The party was led by James Collins, and from 1945 by Jack Beattie, the Member of Parliament for Belfast West, who had initially been elected for the NILP, but had since become an independent Labour representative.

The group stood in the 1945 Northern Ireland general election, but failed to see any of its candidates other than Beattie elected. In 1949, it merged into the newly formed Northern Section of the Irish Labour Party.

## References

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* Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations
* Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, Who's Who of British MPs: Volume IV, 1945-1979

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Defunct political parties of Northern Ireland

Unionist / Loyalist|

* Commonwealth Labour Party
* Independent Unionist Association
* NI21
* Northern Ireland Unionist Party
* Protestant Unionist Party
* UK Unionist Party
* Ulster Constitution Party
* Ulster Democratic Party
* Ulster Popular Unionist Party
* Ulster Progressive Unionist Association
* Ulster Unionist Coalition Party
* Ulster Unionist Labour Association
* Unionist Party of Northern Ireland
* United Ulster Unionist Council
* United Ulster Unionist Party
* United Unionist Coalition
* Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party
* Volunteer Political Party

Nationalist / Republican|

* All Ireland Anti-Partition League
* Federation of Labour
* Fianna Uladh
* Irish Anti-Partition League
* Irish Independence Party
* Irish Union Association
* National Democratic Party
* Nationalist Party
* National League of the North
* National Unity
* Northern Council for Unity
* Official Sinn Féin
* People's Democracy
* Red Republican Party
* Republican Socialist Collective
* Saor Éire
* Socialist Republican Party
* Unity

Left-wing1|

* Belfast Labour Party
* Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist)
* Communist Party of Northern Ireland
* Democratic Left
* Dock Labour Party
* Independent Labour Group
* Independent Socialist Party
* Labour coalition
* Labour Party of Northern Ireland
* Labour and Trade Union Group
* League for a Workers' Republic
* Northern Ireland Labour Party
* Republican Labour Party
* Socialist Labour Alliance
* Socialist Party of Northern Ireland
* United Labour Party
* World Socialist Party

Ulster nationalist|

* British Ulster Dominion Party
* Ulster Independence Movement
* Ulster Independence Party
* Ulster Movement for Self-Determination
* Ulster Third Way

Others|

* Democratic Partnership
* Natural Law Party
* Newtownabbey Ratepayers' Association
* Northern Ireland Women's Coalition
* Ulster Liberal Party
* Unbought Tenants' Association

1 Excluding those left-wing parties avowedly nationalist / republican or unionist / loyalist.

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International|

* VIAF

National|

* United States

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