The
Social Democratic and Labour Party is a major nationalist party in
Northern Ireland. It was founded in the early 1970s to provide a political movement to unite non-violent nationalists who opposed the campaign of violence of
Sinn Féin and its military wing, the
Provisional IRA, yet who also wanted to campaign democratically for a
united Ireland[?].
It has had three leaders;
It has served in the current power-sharing[?] government in Northern Ireland, alongside the Ulster Unionist Party, Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party. (The powersharing administration is currently in suspension.)