The newly-formed alliance of existing parties United Left Alliance, launching its website has said it will lead a campaign of sustained resistance on the streets.
The ‘United Left Alliance’ is formed by the People Before Profit Alliance, Socialist Party, and Workers and Unemployed Action Group.
The ULA has said it expects to run around 20 candidates in the election.
Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins said that it is his view that there is no need for cuts, adding that working class people should not be expected to pay for the mistakes of the wealthy.
*Cllr Joan Collins (PBPA), Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett, MEP Joe Higgins (SP) & Cllr Seamus Healy (*Workers and Unemployed Action Group) outside Dail at launch
The new alliance says it would scrap the four-year recovery plan and stand up to the International Monetary Fund and the European Union. It says the plan is an attack on the poor and a policy to protect the rich.
Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett of People Before Profit says "it would heavily tax the wealthy as an alternative to borrowing. Ireland’s super rich have caused national humiliation, he said.
It has called for a 24-hour strike of all workers to end what it calls the ‘robbery of the people’.
The Alliance’s website can be found here:
Read the ‘United Left Alliance Statement’ below as an attachment
Watch the RTE One News Report on the Press conference here
Read the Irish Times Report on the Press conference here
The United Left Alliance will be publicly launched at a rally this Monday, 29 November at 8pm in the Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street.