Socialist Environmental Alliance
The Socialist Environmental Alliance (SEA) are a minor political party operating in Northern Ireland. Based largely in the city of Derry, they are a leftist organisation with Trotskyist leanings.
They are similar to the Scottish Socialist Party in that a number of different organisations have come together to form them, such as the Socialist Workers Party.
Their website describes their aims as being:
"The SEA stands for a society that puts people and the planet before profit and war.
SEA campaigns for a decent minimum wage, for free education and an end to the 11 plus, for better funded public services and against privatisation, for a cleaner, sustainable environment, against war and the arms trade, for equal rights for women, gays and lesbians, and opposition to all forms of discrimination.
We stand for an alternative to sectarianism, based on uniting working people in a common struggle for a better world.
We stand alongside the international movement of opposition to corporate globalisation.
We aim to bring together all those who share those aims in a spirit of cooperation and solidarity."
The SEA contested the Northern Ireland Assembly 2003 election in the East Londonderry and Foyle seats (reflecting the party's Derry base). They polled poorly in East Londonderry, with candidate Marion Baur gaining only 137 first preference votes (only 0.4% of the total), although in Foyle Eamonn McCann managed to gain 2,257 first preference votes (5.5% of the total).
They also contested the European Parliament 2004 election, with Eamonn McCann their candidate. He managed to win 9,172 first preference votes, or 1.6% of the total cast.