Solidarity (Ireland)

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Solidarity (Irish: Dlúthpháirtíocht – na sóisialaigh), also styled Solidarity – the Socialist Alternative, is a Trotskyist political party in Ireland, active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The party in its current form was established in March 2026, when the Socialist Party (founded in 1996) formally merged with Solidarity, its long-standing electoral vehicle, which had been launched in 2014 as the Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA) and renamed Solidarity in 2017. From 2014 until the merger, every elected representative standing under the Solidarity banner had in fact been a member of the Socialist Party, leading commentators to describe Solidarity as a front organisation for its Trotskyist parent. The March 2026 merger, endorsed at Solidarity's National Conference, formalised this relationship into a single organisation "covering the whole of the island of Ireland, North and South", organised into two regional structures. Solidarity is part of the People Before Profit...

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