The decision of Paul Murphy’s Rise movement to join People Before Profit along with membership growth is “the best opportunity since James Connolly was alive to put radical, genuine socialist politics on the political agenda in a serious way,” Richard Boyd Barrett has said. He said the party is pursuing the possibility of a “genuine left Government” after the next election. Mr Murphy left the Socialist Party in 2019 and set up Rise (Revolutionary, Internationalist, Socialist and Environmentalist). He said that Rise had already been working with People Before Profit in campaigning for a ‘Zero Covid’ strategy in response to the ongoing pandemic. People Before Profit support the holding of a Border poll to bring about a united Ireland whereas Solidarity does not advocate this approach.

Source: The Irish Times March 01, 2021 19:58 UTC