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On 10 March 2017, the Anti-Austerity Alliance called a press conference and announced that it would now be relaunched as Solidarity. This name change was made to reflect the "many movements emerging on workplace, economic and social issues" and that while "the AAA has played a key role in campaigns
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about forming a new political grouping. On 17 September 2015, the two parties announced that they had formally registered as a single political party for electoral purposes. The new organisation was called "Anti-Austerity Alliance–People Before Profit" and subsequently renamed as
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like the water charges and housing", that the organisation under the name of Solidarity "will continue to do so, but the name will now better reflect our campaigning work on Repeal, LGBTQ issues and equality generally."
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was elected as TD for the Cork North–Central constituency in 2016. According to the Irish Examiner, Barry has been "a leading figure in the Cork and national campaigns" against household and water charges.
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The party contested the 2014 local elections on a platform of job creation. On 8 April 2014, it launched a plan to create 150,000 jobs across Ireland by replacing the controversial
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On 7 August 2015, the party was removed from the Register of Political Parties. It held discussions in August 2015 with the
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and Gateway initiatives with a "real jobs programme of public works, free education and genuine training schemes".
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on high earners, and introduce a ‘Millionaire's Tax’ on net personal wealth in excess of €1 million.
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The Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA) was launched in 2014 as a far-left, anti-capitalism grouping.
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Cork City Councillor Lil O'Donnell left the party at the time of the rebranding as Solidarity.
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as a "border poll" on the grounds they believe it would further entrench
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has opined that this position is a "bizarre fusion of Trotskyism and
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to contest local elections, and ran at least forty candidates in the
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All Solidarity's elected representatives are members of the
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Index


Leader
Ideology
Socialism
Eco-socialism
Left-wing populism
Trotskyism
Feminism
Political position
Left-wing
far-left
People Before Profit–Solidarity
Socialist Party
Dáil Éireann
Local government in the Republic of Ireland
www.solidarity.ie
Politics of Republic of Ireland
Political parties
Elections
Irish
Ireland
political party
2014 Irish local elections
Socialist Party

JobBridge
Paul Murphy
Dáil Éireann
Dublin South-West
by-election in October 2014

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