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Socialist Party (Ireland)
The Socialist Party () is a political party in Ireland, active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Internationally, it was affiliated to the Trotskyist International Socialist Alternative (previously the Committee for a Workers International) until 2024. The party has been involved in various populist campaigns including the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign and the Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes. Members of the party were jailed for their part in the former, while members have been arrested for their role in the latter. It had a seat in the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014. In 2015, the party received state funding of €132,000. From 2014, the party's election candidates in the Republic did not stand for election directly on the Socialist Party platform, but have instead run as candidates of the Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA), now Solidarity, which was a registered party in its own right between 2014 and 2015 and which continues to contest elections as p ...
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Democratic Socialism
Democratic socialism is a left-wing economic ideology, economic and political philosophy that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic Centrally planned economies, centrally planned socialist economy. Democratic socialists argue that capitalism is inherently incompatible with the values of freedom, Egalitarianism, equality, and solidarity and that these Ideal (ethics), ideals can only be achieved through the realisation of a socialist society. Although most democratic socialists seek a gradual transition to socialism, democratic socialism can support revolutionary or reformist politics to establish socialism. ''Democratic socialism'' was popularised by socialists who opposed the backsliding towards a one-party state in the Soviet Union and other countries during the 20th century. The his ...
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Ireland
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelanda sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island) and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdomcovering the remaining sixth). It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest in the world. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islands by population, ...
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Derry
Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest City status in the United Kingdom, city in Northern Ireland, and the fifth-largest on the island of Ireland. Located in County Londonderry, the city now covers both banks of the River Foyle. Cityside and the old walled city being on the west bank and Waterside, Derry, Waterside on the east, with two road bridges and one footbridge crossing the river in-between. The population of the city was 85,279 in the 2021 census, while the Derry Urban Area had a population of 105,066 in 2011. The district administered by Derry City and Strabane District Council contains both Londonderry Port and City of Derry Airport. Derry is close to the Irish border, border with County Donegal, with which it has had a close link for many centuries. The person traditionally seen as the founder of the original Derry is Saint , a holy man from , the old name for almost all of modern County Donegal, of which the west bank of the Foyle was a part befor ...
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Militant Tendency
The Militant tendency, or Militant, was a Trotskyist group in the British Labour Party, organised around the ''Militant'' newspaper, which launched in 1964. In 1975, there was widespread press coverage of a Labour Party report on the infiltration tactics of Militant. Between 1975 and 1980, attempts by Reg Underhill and others in the leadership of the Labour Party to expel Militant were rejected by its National Executive Committee, which appointed a Militant member to the position of National Youth Organiser in 1976 after Militant had won control of the party's youth section, the Labour Party Young Socialists. After the Liverpool Labour Party adopted Militant's strategy to set an illegal deficit budget in 1982, a Labour Party commission found Militant in contravention of clause II, section 3 of the party's constitution which made political groups with their own "Programme, Principles and Policy for Separate and Distinctive Propaganda" ineligible for affiliation. Militant was p ...
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Entryism
Entryism (also called entrism, enterism, infiltration, a French Turn, boring from within, or boring-from-within) is a political strategy in which an organization or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program. If the organization being "entered" is hostile to entryism, the entryists may engage in a degree of subterfuge and subversion to hide the fact that they are an organization in their own right. Socialist entryism "Boring from within" One entryist strategy that took place in the United States is called the "boring from within" strategy. Radical workers would join established (and often conservative) trade unions and attempt to join their leadership to shift their stances leftward. These workers were called "borers". Boring was opposed by radical workers who supported dual unionism, where radical unions would attempt to win over workers and firm-level union lo ...
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Teachta Dála
A Teachta Dála ( ; ; plural ), abbreviated as TD (plural ''TDanna'' in Irish language, Irish, TDs in English), is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas, the parliament of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The official English translation of the term is "Dáil Deputy". An equivalent position would be a Member of parliament, Member of Parliament (MP) in the UK or Member of Congress in the USA. Number of TDs Republic of Ireland, Ireland is divided into Dáil constituencies, each of which elects three, four, or five TDs. Under the Constitution of Ireland, Constitution, the total number of TDs must be fixed at one TD for each 20,000 to 30,000 of the population. There are 174 TDs in the 34th Dáil, elected at the 2024 Irish general election, 2024 general election under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023. The outgoing Ceann Comhairle is automatically returned unless they announce their retirement before the dissolution of the Dáil. Qualification A candidate for e ...
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Paul Murphy (Irish Politician)
Paul Murphy (born 13 April 1983) is an Irish People Before Profit–Solidarity politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West (Dáil constituency), Dublin South-West constituency since the 2014 Dublin South-West by-election. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin (European Parliament constituency), Dublin constituency from 2011 to 2014. He was previously a member of the Socialist Party (Ireland), Socialist Party and Solidarity (Ireland), Solidarity, but left in September 2019 to form a new party, RISE (Ireland), RISE. In February 2021, RISE joined People Before Profit as a network, and Murphy became a TD for the party. Early and personal life Murphy grew up in Goatstown, a suburb of Dublin. His father Kieran Murphy was a senior manager at the Irish division of Mars, Incorporated, Mars. His uncle Michael Murphy (journalist), Michael Murphy was a journalist and broadcaster at RTÉ. His family is originally from Castlebar, Coun ...
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Mick Barry (Irish Politician)
Mick Barry (born 17 September 1964) is an Irish People Before Profit–Solidarity politician who was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency from 2016 to 2024. According to the ''Irish Examiner'', Barry was "a leading figure in the Cork and national campaigns" against household and water charges in the 2010s. Personal life Barry was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1964. His family returned to Ireland in 1971 when he was 8 years old, and moved to Rathfarnham in Dublin. Barry moved to Cork city in 1991Roche, Barry"Socialist Party candidate raises red flag in the heart of Cork's north side". 19 February 2011. ''The Irish Times''(archive link)/ref> and has remained a resident ever since, living in the suburb of Blackpool. Political career 1989 to 2016 Dick Spring expelled Barry, alongside Joe Higgins, Clare Daly, Ruth Coppinger and 10 others, from the Labour Party in 1989 for their membership of the Militant tendency. Barry was first elected as a member of Cor ...
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Ruth Coppinger
Ruth Coppinger (born 18 April 1967) is an Irish politician and member of the Socialist Party, and Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency. She was first elected in 2014, was re-elected in 2016 general election, as a candidate for Anti-Austerity Alliance–People Before Profit. She lost her seat at the general election in February 2020, but was re-elected in 2024. Political career Councillor (2003–2014) Coppinger was a member of Fingal County Council for the Mulhuddart local electoral area from 2003 to 2014. She was co-opted to the council in 2003, replacing Joe Higgins. She was elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2009. She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Socialist Party at the 2011 Dublin West by-election. In March 2013 Coppinger became a founding member of ROSA, a socialist feminist organisation which, amongst other things, began advocating for abortion rights in Ireland. TD (2014–2020) Following victory in the 2014 Dublin West by-election, Copping ...
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 720 members (MEPs), after the June 2024 European elections, from a previous 705 MEPs. It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India), with an electorate of around 375 million eligible voters in 2024. Since 1979, the Parliament has been directly elected every five years by the citizens of the European Union through universal suffrage. Voter turnout in parliamentary elections decreased each time after 1979 until 2019, when voter turnout increased by eight percentage points, and rose above 50% for the first time since 1994. The voting age is 18 in all EU member states e ...
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Campaign Against Home And Water Taxes
The Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes (CAHWT) was a group opposed to the introduction of property and water charges in Ireland. It called for the boycott to be used to this effect. The campaign launched on 22 December 2011. It had a national presence, and was supported by numerous national representatives, including Joe Higgins, Clare Daly, Joan Collins, Séamus Healy, Richard Boyd Barrett and Thomas Pringle. It also had support from some Sinn Féin members and the Socialist Party. It was not supported by Fianna Fáil. Fine Gael Environment Minister Phil Hogan, who announced the initial plans for a household charge and payment for water use, openly criticised the subversive campaign. It established a "national anti-household tax" phone line and organised meetings in every major town in the country. ''The Irish Times'' said in April 2012 that the campaign had been "built with lightning speed." On 1 May 2013, Gardaí arrested five members of the group, including Ted Tynan and ...
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Anti-Bin Tax Campaign
The Anti-Bin Tax Campaign opposed the introduction of bin charges (garbage-collection fees) by local authorities in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The campaign centred largely in city areas, in particular Dublin. It was locally based with some co-ordination in the Dublin area. Non-payment was the tactic used against the charge. The campaign was supported by a variety of people from community and minor political groupings, such as Socialist Party (Ireland), Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party (Ireland), Socialist Workers Party, Irish Socialist Network, Workers Solidarity Movement and Working Class Action. Imprisonment of protesters and result of campaign In Autumn 2003, after years of mass non-payment the Dublin local authorities began non-collection; leading to protests and blockades of bin trucks. In the High Court Fingal County Council sought an injunction and the imprisonment of Joe Higgins (politician), Joe Higgins and Clare Daly of the Socialist Party (Ireland), Socialist ...
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