Ahead of the People Before Profit Foyle Assembly Election 2022 launch Eamonn McCann said,
“I am urging all my friends in Foyle to weigh in and get Shaun Harkin elected to the Assembly.
Shaun was at the heart of my own campaigns for the Assembly and Derry City and Strabane Council over recent years. He has now been selected to fight the Foyle seat for our party, People Before Profit. His will be the only name on the ballot paper on May 5th to offer a clear radical alternative to the old Orange/Green set-up.
We cannot get the change we need by voting for the same old parties.
The difference between Shaun and his rivals in Foyle will be the difference between fresh new ideas and the same old, same old.
We need Shaun at Stormont, arguing for socialist politics and campaigning across the sectarian divide for the rights of working-class people.
The five bigger parties – Sinn Fein, the DUP, the SDLP, the Ulster Unionists and Alliance – have controlled the Assembly for the last quarter century. Between them, they have run every Executive since Stormont was brought back to life. They have to take a big share of the blame for the Assembly’s failure to deliver for Derry.
Shaun will provide a clear voice with a different message, advocating for a socialist Ireland.
To break new ground and unearth new opportunities, we will need politics based on common class interests, not on separate community backgrounds. Putting Shaun into the Assembly on May 5th will be a major step towards this objective.
Derry has always been ahead of the curve in politics. We should stay out front on May 5th by voting number one for Shaun Harkin.”
