Murphy, Paul

He studied at the Dublin Pedagogical Institute and at the Faculty of Law at the University College Dublin , worked on his thesis "Does socialist law exist?" Member of the Irish Socialist Party since 2001, joined its National Executive Committee in 2010. Replaced Joe Higgins , who was elected political adviser in the European Parliament in 2009 (who previously worked as political adviser), who went to the Irish Parliament as a result of the 2011 elections .

Actively participates in solidarity campaigns with left-wing and popular movements outside the EU. In 2011, he took part in the second Freedom Flotilla, aimed at breaking through the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip . He covered the suppression by the Kazakh authorities of the protests in Zhanaozen , receiving information from comrades in the Committee for the Workers International (KRI) - the Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan . In June 2013, Murphy was among the protesters in Taksim Square in Istanbul.

In 2014, he lost the seat of the European MP in the elections to the European Parliament, but was elected at the by-election to Doyle Eren . He was re-elected in the 2016 parliamentary elections from the left anti-capitalist Alliance Against Austerity - People Are More Important than Profits (now Solidarity - People Are More Important than Profits), which includes the Socialist Party. In 2015, he was arrested and prosecuted for organizing a campaign against water tariffs in Jobstown against Deputy Prime Minister Joan Burton , but in 2017 the court found him and five other accused members of Solidarity not guilty on all counts.

Married to Jesse Speer, activist of the CWI section in the United States, .