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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 Political radicalism[2] Trotskyism[3] Euroscepticism[4] |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| National affiliation | Solidarity People Before Profit–Solidarity CCLA |
| European affiliation | European Anti-Capitalist Left |
| International affiliation | International Socialist Alternative[5] |
| European Parliament group | GUE/NGL |
| Colours | Red, white |
| Dáil Éireann[6] | 1 / 160
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| Local government in the Republic of Ireland[7] | 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 is affiliated to the Trotskyist International Socialist Alternative. 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.[8]
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.
- ^ Dunphy, Richard (2016). "Struggling for Coherence: Irish radical left and nationalist responses to the austerity crisis". Europe's Radical Left: From Marginality to the Mainstream?. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 200. ISBN 9781783485369.
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- ^ "Ireland, Brexit and why the EU must be opposed". Socialist Party. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ About us. Socialist Party (Ireland) (official website). Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ "Find a TD". Houses of the Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ "2019 Local Elections". electionsireland.org. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ SIPO – funding of party leaders
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