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Richard Boyd Barrett Speaking For the Left Opposition in front of the Dail flanked by party leaders and Sen Frances Black.

People Before Profit using Private Members’ Business for Joint Left Opposition Motion on Occupied Territories Bill

Joint Motion calling for Government to include ban on trade in services in OTB to be debated and voted on Wednesday

17 Nov 2025

'Unison LGBT+ Northern Ireland' banner at Foyle Pride March 2025

Sinn Féin Unites With DUP To Vote Down Trans Rights Solidarity Motion In Derry City and Strabane District Council

Transgender Day of Remembrance is 20 November. Cllr. Harkin: 'The demands of the LGBTQ+ community for equality are not the problem. The scapegoating and demonisation some Ministers and parties, primarily the DUP, are fully engaged in is the problem.'

14 Nov 2025

Cllr.s Conor Reddy and Hazel De Nortúin of People Before Profit in front of Council Housing in Dolphin's Barn Dublin.

People Before Profit Oppose Dublin City Council Rent Hikes

“This is austerity by stealth. Council management are being forced to act like accountants because the State has walked away from its responsibility to fund public housing. "The Council’s job is to provide safe, affordable homes, not to claw money out of tenants to balance the books."

14 Nov 2025

Richard Boyd Barrett superimposed over a government photo op at a new building site in Waterford.

'New' Housing Plan, Old Policy. Radical Housing Reset Needed Now

Richard Boyd Barrett: Government Relying on Same Old Failed Policies to Tackle Housing Crisis; 'This strategy has only led to spiralling homelessness, evictions, rent increases and ever increasing social housing waiting lists. It has never delivered the affordability that is needed.'

14 Nov 2025

Screen Grab from Gerry Carroll's introduction to the Motion of No Confidence in Paul Givan as Minister for Education in Stormont 10 November 2025

No Confidence, No Accountability: Givan’s Time Is Up

"For weeks, thousands of people from all backgrounds have flooded the inboxes of MLAs to express their moral outrage at the Minister’s actions. People have taken to streets, calling on the Minister to step aside. Education workers and teaching unions... the DUP’s arrogance is on full display."

10 Nov 2025

Picketing Health Workers at Altnagelvin Hospital & Cllr Shaun Harkin: Pay Healthcare Workers What They Are Owed! 'The Stormont Executive must halt broken pay promises etc...' Motion PASSED.

Motion Backing HSC Workers Receives Unanimous Support In Derry City & Strabane District Council

'The Stormont Executive should prioritise fair pay for HSC workers and stop running down the health service through privatisation and the siphoning out of hundreds of millions in public funds.' Cllr Shaun Harkin

4 Nov 2025

Carroll’s Motion of No Confidence Gains Further Momentum

Carroll’s Motion of No Confidence Gains Further Momentum

Paul Givan's trip to the genocidal state of Israel at the invitation of and paid for by the Netanyahu government itself has galvanised condemnation from parties outside DUP including Sinn Féin, SDLP and Alliance. The motion will be debated.

4 Nov 2025

Cover art from PBP Pamphlet. Title on a yellow sky over a pencil drawing of flats broken by a key topped by a Palestinian flag.

From The River To The Sea: The Struggle for Palestinian Liberation

34-page pamphlet re-printed for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 29 November.

29 Oct 2025

Catherine Connolly on a Palestine solidarity march in Dublin.

Catherine Connolly Wins: An Historic Victory For the Left

Paul Murphy looks at why and how this historic victory happened and what we must do to carry it forward to win a socialist republic.

25 Oct 2025