People Before Profit Land and Food Use Policy SUMMARY Greater support for smaller farmers who produce for the home market. Encourage a shift to more environmentally friendly forms of farming. Oppose the privatisation of our forests. Establish a proper healthy…

TTIP Policy and Briefing Notes SUMMARY People Before Profit calls for the Irish government to withdraw from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) negotiations now; the ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and…

People Before Profit War & Conflict Policy People Before Profit is an anti-imperialist party. Imperialism is a world economic and political structure – not just a series of individual acts of colonisation. Economically its main feature is the domination of…

People Before Profit Environmental Policy In light of the overwhelming scientific evidence for human induced climate change, People Before Profit advocates a radical series of measures to dramatically reduce Ireland’s Co2 emissions. These will include a public transport revolution to…

People Before Profit Childcare Policy SUMMARY Childcare should be provided as a universal right. It should be funded through a universally applied progressive taxation system. In the immediate term, parents should receive a state subsidy for childcare so they only…

People Before Profit LGBT Policy SUMMARY People Before Profit campaigns for full equality for LBGT people. We want: An end to the ban on gay or bisexual men donating blood. The abolition of section 37.1 of the Employment Equality Act…

People Before Profit Racism and Immigration Policy SUMMARY People Before Profit declares itself completely opposed to racism in all its forms, including Islamophobia, anti-semitism, and anti-Traveller racism. In opposition to racism we regard the ordinary people of every nation, ethnic…

People Before Profit Natural Resources Policy SUMMARY Take all oil and gas resources into public ownership. People Before Profit will nullify all existing agreements with oil companies and place a moratorium on all licensing rounds until the new model of…

People Before Profit Healthcare Policy SUMMARY For a National Health Service that treats people according to medical need and not the size of their wallet — For better Health by Effective Funding and Access to Healthcare For Reducing Health and…

In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx wrote: “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted…