People Before Profit Alliance
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| People Before Profit Alliance | |
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| Founded | October 2005 |
| Headquarters | Lower Cherry Orchard Community Centre, Lefanu Rd, Ballyfermot, Dublin |
| Political Ideology | Left-wing |
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| European Affiliation | |
| European Parliament Group | |
| Colours | Green, white, red |
| Website | people-before-profit.org |
| See also | Politics of Ireland |
The People Before Profit Alliance is an Irish political party, registered in 2007.
It was established as a broad left alliance that seeks to gather support against neo-liberalism, war, and so on, but does not ask that members subscribe to a revolutionary socialist programme. The largest political group in the alliance is the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
It contested several people in the 2007 Irish general election, polling around 9,000 first preferences, with Richard Boyd Barrett, the candidate in the Dun Laoghaire constituency narrowly missing out on a seat.
People Before Profit, unsuccessfully, also contested one candidate, Sean Mitchell, in the Northern Ireland election to the Stormont Assembly in 2007, polling almost 800 first preferences for the West Belfast Constituency.
At age 19 he was the youngest candidate to stand in an election in the island of Ireland, and successfully gained the right to stand in an election by threatening to take the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain, to court if the legal loophole prevented him from doing so. (England, Scotland and Wales had secured the right to contest candidates under the age of 20, providing they were over 18, for constituencies for devolved government whereas Northern Ireland had been simply excluded). The Alliance launch a No to Lisbon Treaty Campaign in May 2008.
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