The Workers Party launched its manifesto in Dublin today, pledging to provide a voice for the working classes who have suffered as extravagance and wealth has grown alongside poverty and social need.
"Only the Workers’ Party can seriously challenge the conservative vested interests which ensure that workers and their families are subject to a daily grind to exist," the party President Mr Seán Garland claimed.
He said that despite the fact that the economy had grown by 10 per cent a year during the 1990s, Ireland still has 150,000 people on the live register, the highest levels of poverty in the European Union and a health service in crisis.
Mr Garland alleged that this was due in part to the fact we live in a "very unequal, corrupt and increasingly undemocratic Ireland," where the electorate is alienated from the democratic process and where faith in politics and political life is seriously eroded.
"This is a policy statement, rather than an attempt at costing our proposals," Mr John Lowry, the party General Secretary told ireland.com.
The party, which has no representatives in the Dáil, is running eight candidates in seven constituencies in Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Louth.
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