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“Enough is enough”: 20,000 Northern Ireland civil servants strike against pay restraint
Up to 20,000 civil servants across Northern Ireland took strike action on 26 July.
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Harland and Wolff workers occupy Belfast shipyard demanding re-nationalisation
Harland and Wolff is the sole remaining shipbuilding business in the Belfast shipyard. The shipbuilding industry in Belfast has a four hundred year history and was most famously associated with the construction of the ill-fated […]
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Ireland North: Electoral breakthrough for anti-sectarian socialist
“For me, this is not a personal victory but a political one – it is a victory for cross-community, socialist politics. It reflects a growing opposition to the sectarian games, cuts and backward social policies […]
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Ireland North: Who are the ‘dissident’ republicans?
Although violence has remained at a relatively low level in Northern Ireland since the ending of the ‘Troubles’, the recent killing of the young journalist, Lyra McKee, in Derry city, by a republican armed group, […]
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Ireland North: After the death of Lyra McKee unions must show way forward
The killing of Lyra McKee on Thursday 19 April sent a wave of shock across Northern Ireland. Lyra was only 29 years old but had already made a name for herself as a journalist, an […]
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Ireland North: Trade unionists respond to killing of journalist Lyra McKee
Working class people from across the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland were revulsed by the shooting and death of a young female journalist, Lyra McKee, in Derry city, last Thursday evening. Anton McCabe, National Executive Council […]
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Ireland North: Brexit crisis and the role of the workers’ movement
The prolonged countdown to the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union has thrown the Conservative government into a profound crisis. The chaos is such that an anonymous European source has compared the UK to a […]
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Protests across Ireland following high profile Belfast rape trial
The outcome of a high profile rape law court trial in Belfast, which saw four defendants, including Ulster and Ireland rugby football players, Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding, found ‘not guilty’ on charges of rape […]
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Belfast ‘Good Friday Agreement’ – What has it delivered 20 years on?
The tenth of April 2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in Belfast. This was the formal ending of the ‘Troubles’, the euphemism for decades of sectarian upheaval […]
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Ireland North: Political paralysis and the Brexit crisis
On 12 February, Prime Minister Theresa May and Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar, flew to Belfast to supposedly clinch a deal between Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that would see the […]