However, a number of party members were critical of the lack of democracy and civil liberties within the Soviet state.
Some of the more hard-line pro-Soviet members, such as Michael O'Riordan, were unhappy with this and sought to have the decision reversed in the early 1970s.
Twenty-two party members resigned, forming the Irish Marxist Society shortly thereafter.
Among the people involved were Sam Nolan,[4] Mick O'Reilly,[5] Joe Deasy[6] and Paddy Carmody.
[12] The organization held that Russia and China had not yet been ready for a socialist revolution, but that one could work in some other countries.