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Socialist Party | |
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Leader | Collective Leadership |
Founded | 1996 |
Split from | Labour Party |
Headquarters | 141 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland |
Newspaper | The Socialist |
Youth wing | Socialist Youth |
Membership (2016) | 200 to 500 members[1] |
Ideology | Democratic socialism Trotskyism[2] Euroscepticism[3] |
Political position | Left-wing[4] to far-left |
National affiliation | Solidarity People Before Profit–Solidarity CCLA |
European affiliation | European Anti-Capitalist Left |
European Parliament group | GUE/NGL |
International affiliation | Committee for a Workers' International (until 2019) International Socialist Alternative (2019 - 2024) |
Colours | Red, white |
Dáil Éireann[5] | 1 / 160
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Local government in the Republic of Ireland[6] | 4 / 949
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Website | |
socialistparty.ie socialistpartyni.org (Northern Ireland) | |
The Socialist Party (Irish: Páirtí Sóisialach) is a political party in Ireland, active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Internationally, it was affiliated to the Trotskyist International Socialist Alternative (previously the Committee for a Workers International) until 2024.
The party has been involved in various populist campaigns including the Anti-Bin Tax Campaign and the Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes. Members of the party were jailed for their part in the former, while members have been arrested for their role in the latter. It had a seat in the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014. In 2015, the party received state funding of €132,000.[7]
From 2014, the party's election candidates in the Republic did not stand for election directly on the Socialist Party platform, but have instead run as candidates of the Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA), now Solidarity, which was a registered party in its own right between 2014 and 2015 and which continues to contest elections as part of People Before Profit–Solidarity (PBP–S). Socialist Party members Ruth Coppinger, Mick Barry and former member Paul Murphy, were elected in this way as TDs in the 32nd Dáil. Similarly, in 2016 the Socialist Party in Northern Ireland instead fielded candidates in the Cross Community Labour Alternative. In 2022, however, the party ran once again in the North as the Socialist Party.
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