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The United Left Alliance in Ireland: Is this the left unity we were hoping for?
Richard Boyd Barrett from the People Before Profit Alliance and Joe Higgins MEP from the Socialist Party, during the launch of the new United Left Alliance, November 29, 2010.By Des DerwinDecember 13,...
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Ireland: United Left Alliance's electoral challenge strengthens
January 16, 2011 -- United Left Alliance -- The challenge of the United Left Alliance to the right-wing consensus in Irish politics is strengthening rapidly. As of today, a total of 17 constituencies...
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The future of the left in Irish politicsJanuary 20, 2011 -- RTE, Today with Pat Kenny -- A new political alliance was born in Ireland just before Christmas. It is the United Left Alliance. It’s an...
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Ireland: More left support for the United Left Alliance
This Irish Times reports on February 13, 2011, that a former Labour Party member of parliament, Declan Bree, has joined the United Left Alliance (ULA). Another Irish left organisation has also backed...
View ArticleIreland: Electoral revolt against austerity, left makes big gains
Election night report of the count in Dun Laoghaire. United Left Alliance's Richard Boyd Barrett TD interviewed on RTE by Brian Dobson after being elected.By Harry Browne, DublinMarch 3, 2011 --...
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New hope in Ireland
By Brendan YoungMay 20, 2011 -- Scottish Left Review via the Irish Left Review, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author's permission -- Described as a sea change by...
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Ireland: United Left Alliance confronts big challenges
[For more coverage of the United Left Alliance and its discussions at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, click HERE.] By Dick Nichols, Dublin July 16, 2011 -- Links International Journal...
View ArticleCrisis, revolt and the left in Europe
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The following presentation is a slightly edited and updated version of a talk given on January 20, 2012, to the eighth national conference of the...
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Ireland: Former hunger striker: 'The IRA should have embraced socialism'
Updated April 17, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Tommy McKearney was a senior member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from the early 1970s until his arrest...
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Ireland: Shock, austerity, Sinn Féin and the United Left Alliance
(Left to right) Joe Higgins, Seamus Healy, Richard Boyd Barrett, Clare Daly and Joan Collins of the United Left Alliance hold a press conference calling for a "no" vote in the EU Fiscal Treaty...
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Ireland: Capitalist press smear-campaign against United Left Alliance MPs
By Joe Higgins TDJuly 7, 2012 -- United Left Alliance -- This week the tragedy that is mass unemployment in Ireland was intensified further with the official rate rising to 14.9%, a total of 440,600...
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To the crucible: an Irish engagement with the Greek crisis and the Greek left
Syriza poster, Synaspismos office in Athens, Helena Sheehan on the streets with Syriza in Athens.[For more discussion of SYRIZA, click HERE.]By Helena SheehanJanuary 21, 2013 -- Irish Left Review,...
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Ireland: Socialist Party leaves the United Left Alliance
[Click HERE to read more on the development of the United Left Alliance.] By Henry Silke January 30, 2013 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- On January 26, the Socialist Party...
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Ireland: What’s left after the ULA?
Happier days before the Socialist Party and Socialist Workers Party abandoned the ULA.Click HERE for more on the United Left Alliance.By Henry Silke, DublinApril 29, 2013 – Links International Journal...
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Does Ireland need a new left party?
"We have a multiplicity of left parties [in Ireland] of the traditional types... All have maxed out their potential in their present form. Some are still vital, while others have been in decline for...
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