Jimmy Brown was a Belfast member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party

Irish Republican Socialist Party

The Irish Republican Socialist Party or IRSP is a republican socialist party active in Ireland. It claims the legacy of socialist revolutionary James Connolly, who founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party in 1896 and was executed after the Easter Rising of 1916.- History :The Irish Republican...

 (IRSP), the Irish National Liberation Army

Irish National Liberation Army

The Irish National Liberation Army or INLA is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group that was formed on 8 December 1974. Its goal is to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a socialist united Ireland....

 (INLA), and the Irish People's Liberation Organisation

Irish People's Liberation Organisation

The Irish People's Liberation Organisation was a small Irish republican paramilitary organization which was formed in 1986 by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army whose factions coalesced in the aftermath of the supergrass trials...

 (IPLO)..

Jimmy Brown left the IRSP in the mid-eighties to join up with the IPLO. He was the leader of the Republican Socialist Collective

Republican Socialist Collective

The Republican Socialist Collective was a fringe Irish republican political group in Northern Ireland formed in 1986.The RSC formed the political arm of the Irish People's Liberation Organisation, a splinter group of the Irish National Liberation Army, under the leadership of Jimmy Brown...

, which was set up as the political wing of the IPLO.

Brown was gunned down in a dispute between factions of the IPLO. It was ended by the Provisional IRA in 1992.