The Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit group met in Dublin today ahead of the Dáil term due to get under way next week.
Their representatives discussed the bus workers' dispute, the prospect of building an alternative left-wing movement, and the campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which deals with the right to life of the unborn, with equal regard to the right to life of the mother.
The AAA-PBP group has six TDs, just one fewer than the Labour Party in the current Dáil.
The alliance's goal is to form the nucleus of an alternative left-wing bloc in the wake of the decline of Labour.
They met in Dublin on a day the capital faces into more bus strikes and with nationwide stoppages on the horizon.
Their representatives were fully behind the transport unions and have backed their campaign for pay increases.
However, the main focus of the meeting was how to forge an effective alliance within the Dáil and beyond to capitalise on what they see as the continuing decline of centre-left politics.
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