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At today’s press conference (8th March 2011) convened by the United Left Alliance in response to the programme for government agreed by Fine Gael and Labour Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit/ULA TD for Dun Laoghaire said: “The United Left Alliance will be the consistent radical opposition in the Dáil to the Fine Gael/Labour/IMF government. We will use the platform of five Dáil seats to likewise argue for a fundamentally alternative way of organising society in the interests of people before bankers and speculators. We will also use our positions to advocate an active response from working people and the unemployed to the attacks this government want to inflict on them. The United Left Alliance will be active on the ground in the communities, workplaces, schools and colleges building resistance in the form of strikes and people power protests in the months and years ahead. Having made our breakthrough in this election we will go on to build the ULA as a nationally as a mass left alternative to the political establishment.”
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These are exciting times. We have just seen a popular revolution in Egypt, where people power through mass protest and strikes brought down a dictator who had been in power for 30 years. This shows what people are capable of when they come together. It is, and should continue to be an inspiration for those around the world who are fighting against injustices, be it political repression, poverty, workers rights or fighting against the cuts. It should be an inspiration for us here fighting our own battles to defend jobs and resist the most savage cuts in the history of this country. Surely now, the old slogan should ring true. Think globally! Act locally!
We have just had 5 members of the United Left Alliance elected to Dail Eireann, two of them are People Before Profit candidates. Joan Collins and Richard Boyd Barrett will use their seat in the Dail as a platform to highlight and give public support to grass roots movements against the cuts and for jobs, be they in the community, or in the workplace. This is a massive step forward for People Before Profit across Ireland.
Since the Westminster election last year People Before Profit has been involved in a number of campaigns. Our public meetings and protests were instrumental in the defeat of the Public Assemblies Bill which was an attack on the basic right of free assembly and protest. We have supported the Galliagh Residents Group in their successful campaign to stop the MUGA being built in Bloomfield. The most notable action in recent months was the student campaign against education cuts launched by F.E.E. (Free Education for Everyone) in December. This campaign was originally against cuts to the EMA (Educational Maintenance Allowance) and the rise in tuition fees, but it soon broadened out to be against all education cuts.
The United Left Alliance had a great election with five TDs elected. We have shown that the left can successfully work together. The ULA is
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Dail positions will be used as platform to advocate for ‘people power’ opposition against cuts
In a statement today the United Left Alliance (ULA) predicated that it will make a significant breakthrough in the General Election on Friday. The Alliance intends to provide a radical and a principled opposition to the Fine Gael/ Labour coalition of cuts. The Alliance will use the Dail as a platform to build the widest opposition to the cuts agenda of the new government.
Cllr. Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit / ULA candidate for Dun Laoghaire, said: “We have had a fantastic response from the public. There is no doubt that there is an appetite for real change. We are confident that we can win between six and ten seats and provide a real opposition to the agenda of cuts. We will use the Dail as a platform to mobilise people power to stop further cuts. This is an historic election. For the first time the electorate have the chance to put a significant group of principled TDs in the Dail who will stand up against the Coalition for Cuts”.
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A cohesive opposition to welfare and spending cuts will only come from a strong left-wing presence in the Dáil. The United Left Alliance (ULA), which represents a spectrum of political parties including the People Before Profit Alliance and Socialist Party, said the three largest parties were all signed up to an agenda of "savage" spending cuts in order to bail out the banks.
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Joan Collins on RTE’s Frontline, 21/02/2011 Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett on RTE’s This Week Programme, 21/02/2011 Keep in touch with all People Before
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