Troops Out Movement
Inactive Defunct The Troops Out Movement (TOM) was an Irish republican organisation formed in the United Kingdom in 1973,[1] following actions by the British Army in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, including the Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy massacres by the Parachute Regiment.The TOM undertook measures to distance themselves from the IRA while simultaneously maintaining that armed struggle was a reasonable response to the discrimination faced by Catholics in Northern Ireland and the various policies instituted by the British government.This shaped its campaigns but also caused some friction with views of the various groups it worked with in Ireland; this was particularly true for issues such as women's liberation, gay rights and anti-racism.Notably, TOM organised "Black Flag" protests on days which Irish hunger strikers in Northern Ireland died.[5] By the 1990s, TOM, while supporting the Good Friday Agreement for its stance on justice, policing, equality, demilitarisation, employment discrimination, cultural rights and the Irish language, highlighted its failure to address sectarian attacks on republican communities from loyalist paramilitaries.