People Before Profit/Solidarity TD Richard Boyd Barrett has told its annual conference that he believes a real opportunity now exists for the first government of the left to emerge.
Party TDs, councillors and public representatives are discussing a wide range of themes on which they have campaigned in the Dáil and elsewhere.
Among them are tacking the cost of living and the housing crisis, protecting Ireland's neutrality and the triple lock, gender based violence and building a socialist alternative for Ireland.
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Mr Boyd Barret told the conference in Dublin that members are strongly advocating for a very public united left front to offer an alternative to what he called the failures of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael on housing, the cost of living and neutrality.
PBP Solidarity holding their annual conference in Dublin today. Discussing an alternative left government, triple lock, neutrality, cost of living and the housing crisis. Calling for left to unite in voting pact in coming elections Report on @rtenews later pic.twitter.com/TygVgOQ6ti
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He said the Catherine Connolly presidential campaign demonstrated this is possible, and the upcoming by-elections will be an opportunity to again show the left can work together.
PBP/Solidarity has TDs in the Dáíl and nine councillors in the Republic, with one MLA and two local councillors in Northern Ireland.
Deputy Boyd Barrett said there has never been a time when a socialist alternative has been more urgent and the war on Iran by the US and Israel sums up everything that is wrong when profit is put before people.
Deputy Paul Murphy said the war has cost 1,500 people in Iran their lives, but in the world over, people are struggling to get by and are facing massive hikes in fuel costs.
He said the world economy and the capitalist class are addicted to fossil fuels, and data centres are taking up all the new Green energy that is connected to the grid.
Mr Murphy said the Government's last budget cut money from people, but fast food giants and tech companies got tax breaks.
Deputy Ruth Coppinger called for a boycott of the upcoming Ireland versus Israel soccer match. which she claimed would be a huge blow to the Israeli regime and a huge boost in morale to all of those who stand against authoritarianism and dictatorship.
