What was the split from CPI actually about? The ICP's website is really vague about it and it - to me - seems like meaningless factionalism. What are their specific reasons to split off and how much of CPI left?

More so in the instance if a united ireland is a true democratic state and not a merger of the two bourgeoise states bringing them together for their benefit.

Considering there is still an extremist, albeit very small, group up north who will eliminate any notion of unification.

Apologies if this post is clustered, just wanted to hear people’s thoughts.

As a Gen Z leftist, I always find records of Gen Z being Proggresive over and over again, but I wondered, "What about Ireland's Gen Z, are they Progressive?", do you guys have any answer's?

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Are there any? Is there a cap on how deep someone gets in pbp without having to drink the swn koolaid

I'm increasingly impressed with them even though I as a republican I've my reservations about how they view the north.

Just wondering how doctrinare are they

🇵🇸 Great to see.

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Hey everyone :) I've seen many on the left, especially in People Before Profit discuss a French-style New Popular Front electoral grouping, but I don't think it makes a lot of sense for 2 main reasons:

1. Unlike France, we have a proportional and preferential electoral system, so the diversity of larger left-wing parties is more beneficial to the Left overall than one unified group. Vote Left, Transfer Left can work better than a unified broad group like the New Popular Front in France.

2. Unlike in France, the threat of the far-right here isn't yet significant enough for centre-left parties like Labour, Soc Dems, and Greens (and more importantly, their voters) to decide that much more radical and ambitious action is required to stop the growth of the far-right and their threats to democracy.

That being said, there could be a huge benefit to a shared democratic electoral platform for smaller left-wing groups and like-minded independents coming into the General Elections.

This would be similar to the Sumar Alliance which was really successful in Spain. It didn't include the larger centre-left PSOE, but included all the smaller left-wing, pro-localism, and environmental parties and like-minded individuals.

In my mind, such a grouping would use a shared democratic platform where everyone can propose ideas (similar to how Mayor Ada Colou and the Barcelona En Comú citizen-led initiative got into local government in Barcelona for 2 terms). An invite to this shared platform would ideally be extended to include all progressive independent candidates, plus smaller parties like Rabharta and Right2Change, as well as potentially PBP (when Podemos, the Spanish equivalent of PBP, joined the Sumar alliance, it didnt work well as it clashed with their separate structures and well-known branding and they soon left).

What do ye think of this idea?