Cross-Community Labour Alternative is a minor political party founded to contest the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election. It stood three candidates^[3] in the East Belfast, South Belfast and East Antrim constituencies. It was initiated by the Socialist Party.^[4]

In the 2016 Assembly election, Cross-Community Labour Alternative reached 1939 first-preference votes, having stood 3 candidates. Conor Sheridan polled 551 first preference votes (1.7%) in East Antrim,^[5] Sean Burns got 871 first preferences (2.7%) in Belfast South^[6] and Courtney Robinson got 517 first preferences (1.4%) in Belfast East.^[7]

In the 2017 election, the CCLA stood four candidates, in the same three constituencies as before, and also in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.^[8] They won no seats and a slightly increased first-preference vote, with 2,009 votes (0.3%).

In the 2019 Northern Ireland local elections, one of the party's candidates, Donal O'Cofaigh, was elected to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.^[9] During the split in the Socialist Party in 2019, O'Cofaigh joined the minority Irish section of the Committee for a Workers' International (2019), which renamed itself Militant Left in June 2020.^[10] CCLA lost their only seat in the 2023 Council elections when Donal O'Cofaigh failed to retain his council seat. In the 2022 Assembly election CCLA ran O'Cofaigh as the party's only candidate.