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People Before Profit is a broad alliance of left wing campaign groups and organisations and the party won 14 seats nationally in the local elections in May.
Findings from the documentary have been submitted to the Department of the Taoiseach by People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Richard Boyd Barrett.His party has a bill before the Oireachtas on the subject and both he and Fergus Dowd believe the Duffy Cahill Report — submitted to the Department of Enterprise in 2016 and described as "an expert examination of legal protections for workers with a particular focus on ways of ensuring limited liability and corporate restructuring are not used to avoid a company's obligations to its employees" could, if it had been implemented, at least avoided some of the worst aspects of the Debenhams collapse.
2003 Assembly election (26 November; six seats) ... Marion Baur (SEA) 137 (0.4%)
Eamonn McCann - SEC - 2257
SEA - 2394 - 0.35%
Eamonn McCann (SEA) 9,172 (1.6%).
2011 Westminster by-election (9 June) - ... Gerry Carroll (People Before Profit) 1751 (7.6%)
Black Mountain (7 seats) .. Gerry Carroll (People Before Profit) 1,691 .. PBP 1,691 (12.1%) 1 seat
People before Profit Alliance - 0 [seats] - 0 [seat change] - 5,438 [votes] - 0.8 [%] - +0.7 [% change]
Eamonn McCann - PBPA - Eliminated - [round] 0 - 3,120 [votes] - 8 [%]
Sean Mitchell - PBP - Eliminated - [#]6 - 774 [votes] - 2.3 [%]
In second place was the SDLP's Alex Attwood on 3,088, with Gerry Carroll of People Before Profit third on 1,751.
Rebecca Black talks to Gerry Carroll, People Before Profit's first elected councillor in Northern Ireland, about his objective to think global, act local, and to offer people an alternative to traditional politics.
Gardaí are likely to issue court summonses to United Left TD Joan Collins and party councillor Pat Dunne in relation to a water meter protest in Crumlin, south Dublin.
Findings from the documentary have been submitted to the Department of the Taoiseach by People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Richard Boyd Barrett.His party has a bill before the Oireachtas on the subject and both he and Fergus Dowd believe the Duffy Cahill Report — submitted to the Department of Enterprise in 2016 and described as "an expert examination of legal protections for workers with a particular focus on ways of ensuring limited liability and corporate restructuring are not used to avoid a company's obligations to its employees" could, if it had been implemented, at least avoided some of the worst aspects of the Debenhams collapse.
For anybody who has not been intimately involved with the Socialist Workers Party or the Socialist Party, you would need to have a PhD in semantics and rhetoric to winkle out the actual ideological difference between them. They are both Trotskyist and advocate permanent revolution and political agitation through working class mass action in capitalist societies such as Ireland.
Gerry Carroll, the newly elected People Before Profit Assembly member for the West Belfast constituency, is also campaigning for a 'Lexit' - a leftwing exit...
a loose historically-trotskyist alliance called "Solidarity – People Before Profit" (S-PBP), some affiliated to the Committee for a Workers International's successor International Socialist Alternative, and others to the Cliffite International Socialist Tendency
The Socialist Environmental Alliance (SEA) comprised the SWP, environmentalists and some others in Derry. The People Before Profit Alliance consists of the SWP plus various and varying activists, groupings and independents. The Campaign for an Independent Left (CIL) enfolded at one time the Dublin South Central-based Community and Workers Action Group (now in the PBPA), the South Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group, the Irish Socialist Network and some independents. The rump of the CIL is now in the PBPA and still meets occasionally. Last year the SEA in Derry joined the PBPA.
Mr McCann previously stood in the constituency in 2005 for the Socialist Environmental Alliance (SEA) when he received 1,649 and came fourth in the poll. Last year PBP and the SEA merged and now Mr McCann is asking the people of Londonderry to abandon the traditional parties and vote socialist.
In a local election which saw the left perform extremely well, the People Before Profit Alliance won 5 Local Election Seats. In Dun Laoghaire, Richard Boyd Barrett topped the poll on the first count and took 22.8% of the vote. The following candidates were elected. Richard Boyd Barrett (Dun Laoghaire), Hugh Lewis (Ballybrack), Joan Collins (Crumlin), Brid Smith (Ballyfermot), Gino Kenny (Clondalkin)
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People Before Profit Alliance ... The party is running four candidates in these elections.
TDs Clare Daly and Joan Collins are set to launch 'United Left' sometime in May, TheJournal.ie has learned, but many of the Dáil's most high-profile left-wing members, including Joe Higgins and Richard Boyd-Barrett, will not be involved.
People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith accused Debenhams of using the Covid crisis as a cover for "a smash and grab on workers' rights". "Many of their workers have given years and years of service and made profits for the company. The company can't be allowed to walk away from their responsibility," said Smith.
Eamonn McCann (SEA) - 2,045 - 4.98
For anybody who has not been intimately involved with the Socialist Workers Party or the Socialist Party, you would need to have a PhD in semantics and rhetoric to winkle out the actual ideological difference between them. They are both Trotskyist and advocate permanent revolution and political agitation through working class mass action in capitalist societies such as Ireland.
Rebecca Black talks to Gerry Carroll, People Before Profit's first elected councillor in Northern Ireland, about his objective to think global, act local, and to offer people an alternative to traditional politics.
