Irish People's Liberation Organization

The Irish People's Liberation Organization (IPLO) split from the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) after the assassination of an INLA leader threw the organization's command structure into disarray. Like INLA, IPLO sought to unite Northern and Southern Ireland into a socialist republic independent of the United Kingdom. IPLO considered itself the legitimate custodian of this goal and sought to destroy and replace INLA. IPLO was soon forcibly dissolved by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), the main Catholic independence-seeking group in Northern Ireland, which killed and injured a number of the group's members in a Halloween attack. Some IPLO members then rejoined INLA.