Formed initially as the Preparatory Committee for the Formation of a Workers’ Revolutionary Party, it changed its name in November 1930.
It was helped to be established by Bob Stewart and Tom Bell from the Communist Party of Great Britain and Comintern.
[1] The group produced a weekly paper The Irish Workers' Voice, first issued on April 5, 1930,[2] with the Scottish socialist Tom Bell as its editor.
[2] The RWG ran two candidates in Dublin in the 1932 Irish general election, Joseph Troy and Jim Larkin, Jnr.
Members also ran in Belfast municipal elections: Tommy Geehan in Falls, and Phil Wilson and William Boyd in Cromac.