Follow this link to view a report and video extracts from an RTE (Irish national TV broadcaster) news programme, covering the press launch of the United Left Alliance. The ULA, the formation of which was initiated by the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) and its MEP, Joe Higgins, will contest seats in the upcoming general elections in Ireland, offering a genuinely left alternative to the main capitalist parties and the diktats of the IMF and ECB.