Pride is a Protest.
People Before Profit is marching in Dublin Pride 2026.
The right is organising to strip away LGBTQ+ rights, drag us backwards towards reactionary politics and spread division and hate, we need to organise and fight back. We won’t take a single step backwards. We won’t allow right-wing grifters and bigots to intimidate our communities or poison a day built through decades of collective struggle.
Pride was won because ordinary people resisted together. That tradition of solidarity extends beyond our own communities. One of its greatest examples was Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, when LGBTQ+ activists and striking miners stood together because they recognised a common struggle against oppression and exploitation. Their solidarity showed that our strength lies in class unity, not in allowing the powerful to divide us.
Today, that lesson is as important as ever. The attacks on LGBTQ+ people are part of a wider assault on workers, migrants, women and all oppressed people. Our answer must be the same: solidarity, collective action and socialist politics that unite our class against those who profit from division.
The far right have chosen to organise on the same day as Pride in an obvious attempt to intimidate our community. They must not succeed. Join us, mobilise, and help ensure Pride belongs to those who built it. Let’s outnumber the forces of hate and show that solidarity will always be stronger than division.
Members and supporters, meet us at Unite the Union's Dublin Office at 11am tomorrow, Saturday 27 June.
People Before Profit members will join Pride in Dublin on Saturday
Will stand in solidarity with LGBT communities against Malachy Steenson’s provocation
The annual Dublin Pride Parade takes place this weekend. People Before Profit members will join the parade and other Pride events to enjoy the festivities and to stand in solidarity with LGBT communities.
Paul Murphy has expressed concern at a provocative rally by Malachy Steenson on Saturday afternoon.
People Before Profit’s Paul Murphy said:
“People Before Profit members will join the Pride Parade in Dublin on Saturday to celebrate the gains that have been achieved by the movement, and also to continue the struggle for liberty for LGBT people. It promises to be a wonderful day of solidarity and festivities, as it always is”.
“However, I am concerned that Malachy Steenson has called a rally at 2pm in the city centre on Saturday, in what appears to be a deliberate far-right targeting of Pride and the LGBT communities.
“Steenson has said his city centre rally on Saturday, during Pride celebrations, ‘is a rally against everything that’s wrong in this country’. This is from someone with a track record of criticising Pride. He threatened to protest against the St Patrick’s Day parade in 2023, saying ‘I think a lot of people will see it as a counter-protest to what passes for the Patrick’s Day parade. It looks like it’s Gay Pride 2. I think people will come along for that reason as well.’
“This is a provocation from Steenson that shows to anyone that may have been influenced by him, that he and others on the far right are pursuing a political agenda of hate and division aimed at immigrants, the LGBT community and others.
“People Before Profit will stand in solidarity with LGBT communities and against Steenson and those that push their agenda of division.”