Over 200 people attended the Anti-Austerity Alliance’s first national conference this afternoon, at the Red Cow Hotel in Dublin.
The conference focused on the building of a new movement to transform Irish society and give political representation to working class people.
Speakers included TDs Paul Murphy, Ruth Coppinger and Joe Higgins, a homeless woman who was involved in the occupation of NAMA properties in Dublin earlier this week, along with a former deputy mayor of Liverpool City Council.
Speaking earlier, TD Paul Murphy said: “The reality [is] that the Government has created a crisis tsunami of homelessness, it has created an economy based on low pay and it has created a situation where almost half of children in the country are suffering from multiple deprivation experiences.”
Ireland must end austerity outright and tax corporations and high earners to provide a “real recovery”, the Dublin TD said.
Mr Murphy continued that Ireland needs “a complete radical change of policy, a political revolution and the building of a mass left movement that can fight for a left government in this country”.