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21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
20/05/2013: This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions
18/05/2013: Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
18/05/2013: Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background
of deep divisions in society and the regime.
17/05/2013: Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to
Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of
Western Australia.
15/05/2013: Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards
14/05/2013: We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough
decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.
13/05/2013: Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on
conditions
12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies
12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?
11/05/2013: The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new
phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial
power.
11/05/2013: On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping
now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.
10/05/2013: Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters
and young people
10/05/2013: On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in
Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.
10/05/2013: Time for a new mass workers’ party
09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon
08/05/2013: Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots
08/05/2013: The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully
through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass
Junction.
07/05/2013: Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8
percent – but important issues are unresolved
06/05/2013: ’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and
vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the
subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.
05/05/2013: Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
05/05/2013: Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination
against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound
up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book
online here.
04/05/2013: Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.
03/05/2013: The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security
service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state,
Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.
03/05/2013: Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and
intervened in the May Day activities across the country
03/05/2013: It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more
so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers
crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
03/05/2013: Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more
besides…
02/05/2013: ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
02/05/2013: Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh
02/05/2013: DSM comrades arrested and detained
01/05/2013: CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against
it
01/05/2013: The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young
people and all those exploited by capitalism.
30/04/2013: Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.
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|  20/05/2013, This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
Socialist Party, Northern Ireland (CWI Ireland)
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|  15/01/2013, Only united working class capable of cutting across increased division
and conflict
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) Belfast
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|  19/12/2012, A socialist analysis
Statement by the Socialist Party (CWI in Northern Ireland)
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|  12/10/2012, ‘March for a Future’ a “powerful statement”
Socialist Party reporters, Belfast
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|  18/09/2012, For class struggle campaigns to unite working people across sectarian
lines
socialistworld.net
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|  11/07/2012, Interview with NIPSA President Padraig Mulholland (personal capacity)
Socialist Party (CWI Northern Ireland)
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|  29/05/2012, Annual conference of Northern Ireland’s largest trade union at the end
of May: A fighting strategy is needed on all fronts
Padraig Mulholland, NIPSA Vice-President (personal capacity), and member
of the Socialist Party (CWI
Ireland)
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|  29/03/2012, The question of an independence referendum in Scotland has provoked
rumblings on both sides of the sectarian divide.
Daniel Waldron, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast
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|  04/02/2012, Joe Higgins argues in Cork, 26 January, to resist the household tax:
"Yes, we have a choice!"
Joe Higgins, TD (member of Irish parliament), Socialist Party (CWI
Ireland)
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|  01/12/2011, “Set a date for next strike!”
Mary Cahillane, National Executive member (personal capacity), Irish
National Teachers’ Organisation
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Further articles on 'Ireland North':2010: - 31/12/2010: Northern Ireland: Water supply crisis a result of privatisation plans
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) Press Release - 18/12/2010: Northern Ireland: £4 billion cuts announced by governing DUP/Sinn Fein
Assembly Executive
Socialist Party (Northern
Ireland) - 27/10/2010: Northern Ireland: Thousands demonstrate in Belfast against devastating
cuts
Daniel Waldron, Socialist Party (CWI in Northern Ireland), Belfast - 01/10/2010: Northern Ireland: Workers, trade unionist and community protest public
sector cuts
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
29 September protest video and leaflet - 27/08/2010: Northern Ireland: Dissident republicanism Nothing to offer but a return
to sectarian killings
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party
(CWI Ireland) - 27/07/2010: Northern Ireland: Riots expose reality of sectarianism
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 16/07/2010: Northern Ireland: Fight the Public Assemblies Bill
Kevin Henry, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 17/06/2010: Bloody Sunday Saville Inquiry: Innocent protesters murdered by the
British Army
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party, Belfast - 16/06/2010: Northern Ireland:Bloody Sunday Enquiry
Re-publication of article from the Militant newspaper (CWI in Britain –
predecessor of the Socialist) - 15/06/2010: Ireland: March on June 26th as part of European Week of Protest &
Solidarity
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 22/05/2010: Ireland: A tribute to comrade Peter Hadden’s contribution
Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin - 20/05/2010: Obituary: Peter Hadden - an inspiring life for socialism
Niall Mulholland, first published in The Socialist, paper of the
Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) - 07/05/2010: CWI Announcement: Peter Hadden 1950-2010
Statement by Socialist Party, Belfast - 25/02/2010: Ireland: Putting working class unity on the agenda!
Socialistworld.net - 09/02/2010: Ireland North: Prime Ministers and US administration hail shaky
‘power-sharing’ “deal”
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland), Belfast - 15/01/2010: Northern Ireland: First Minister steps down
Joe Higgins, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP - 11/01/2010: Northern Ireland: ‘First Minister’ steps down ‘for 6 weeks’ amid scandal
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland), Belfast
2009: - 29/12/2009: Northern Ireland: ‘Power Sharing’ Assembly delivers austerity, as
sectarianism grows
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast - 24/09/2009: Northern Ireland: The national question, Cuba, permanent revolution….
Domhnall O Cobhthaigh, Socialist Party (CWI in Northern Ireland) - 04/09/2009: Northern Ireland: Councillor resigns from Sinn Fein to join the
Socialist Party
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Northern Ireland) - 15/08/2009: Northern Ireland: August 1969 – When British troops went into Northern
Ireland
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI in Northern Ireland) - 19/06/2009: Northern Ireland: Unite against racist attacks!
Socialist Party reporters (CWI in Northern Ireland) - 06/04/2009: Northern Ireland: Belfast Visteon occupation
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI in Northern Ireland) - 01/04/2009: Northern Ireland: Workers occupy Visteon Belfast car plant
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) reporters, Belfast - 12/03/2009: Northern Ireland: Thousands attend trade union rallies to protest
killings and against sectarianism
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) reporters, Belfast - 11/03/2009: Northern Ireland: No more killings!
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) Special Bulletin - 10/03/2009: Northern Ireland: Real IRA killings shock working class people
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) Statement [Issued 9 March 2009], Belfast - 13/01/2009: Northern Ireland: Belfast protest against the Israeli military attacks
on Gaza
socialistworld - 13/01/2009: Northern Ireland: Thousands of Catholics and Protestants rally against
brutal occupation of Gaza
Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) reporters, Belfast
2008: - 09/10/2008: Northern Ireland: UNISON union expels socialist activist
Peter Hadden, from October 2008 issue of The Socialist, monthly paper of
the Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 23/09/2008: Northern Ireland: Back to the Future?
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 25/06/2008: Northern Ireland: Sacked airport shop stewards win historic victory in
Court of Appeal
Press release issued by Gordon McNeill, sacked airport worker - 19/06/2008: Northern Ireland: Bush not welcome in Belfast
By Paddy Meehan, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 04/06/2008: Northern Ireland: Belfast Airport workers
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 29/05/2008: Northern Ireland: Sacked airport shop steward, Gordon McNeill, calls off
hunger strike after doctors threaten court action to have him force fed
Press Release issued by sacked airport workers on Thursday 29 May - 28/05/2008: Northern Ireland: Unite union serves injunction and threatens protesting
shop stewards with fines and imprisonment
Sacked airport workers’ press release (Tuesday 27 May 2008) - 28/05/2008: Northern Ireland: Sacked airport workers accuse Unite leadership of
issuing "black propaganda and disinformation" to try to discredit them.
Sacked airport workers’ press release (Wednesday 28 May 2008) - 27/05/2008: Northern Ireland: The Good Friday Agreement - 10 years on
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast - 23/05/2008: Northern Ireland: Airport workers suspend hunger strike to await offer
Press Release by sacked Belfast airport workers - 20/05/2008: Northern Ireland: Film director Ken Loach supports sacked Belfast
Airport workers
socialistworld.net - 19/05/2008: Northern Ireland : Hunger striking airport worker in critical condition
socialistworld.net - 16/05/2008: Northern Ireland: Sacked airport workers recommence protest at Unite
union Belfast offices
socialistworld.net - 03/05/2008: Northern Ireland: Sacked airport workers six year long battle for justice
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast - 13/04/2008: Northern Ireland: Airport workers suspend hunger strike
socialistworld.net - 10/04/2008: N Ireland: Sacked airport shop stewards hunger strike for justice
Socialist Party reporters, Belfast - 07/04/2008: Northern Ireland: Death on the rock of Gibraltar - 20 years since SAS
killing of three IRA volunteers
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast - 29/02/2008: Northern Ireland: Political sleaze scandal in governing party
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast - 17/01/2008: N Ireland: Classroom assistants betrayed!
Socialist Party reporters, Belfast - 17/01/2008: N Ireland: Socialist Party replies to Sinn Fein attacks on classroom
assistants
Peter Hadden, Regional Secretary, Socialist Party
2007: - 15/11/2007: Northern Ireland: Classroom assistants’ dispute – Which way forward?
socialistworld.net - 12/11/2007: Northern Ireland: 3,000 classroom assistants poised to take more strike
action
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Belfast - 15/10/2007: Northern Ireland: Sacked Belfast Airport workers end protest
Statement by Statement by ‘Sacked Belfast Airport Workers Committee’ - 12/10/2007: northern ireland: sacked belfast airport workers hunger strike
Statement by ‘Sacked Belfast Airport Workers Committee’, Friday 12
October 2007. - 02/10/2007: Northern Ireland: 2,000 classroom assistants’ hold one-day strike
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Part (CWI), Belfast - 25/09/2007: Northern Ireland: Classroom Assistants vote 93% for strike action on 26
September
Brian Booth, NIPSA Branch Secretary & Classroom Workers Strike Committee
South Eastern Education & Library Board - 25/09/2007: Northern Ireland: Assembly government carries out neo-liberal policies
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party, Belfast - 05/09/2007: Northern Ireland: Belfast International Airport workers win
ground-breaking court victory
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 25/06/2007: Northern Ireland: New assembly will not solve economic and social
problems
Articles from the July issue of the Socialist (Ireland). - 17/05/2007: Ireland North: Sinn Fein and Ian Paisley’s DUP form power sharing
Executive
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI), Belfast - 04/04/2007: Ireland: “We won’t pay” say hundreds of demonstrators in Belfast
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 29/03/2007: Northern Ireland: British government/local parties make power-sharing
agreement and retreat on water charges
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 14/03/2007: Northern Ireland: We Won’t Pay Campaign conference prepares for water
charges
Pat Lawlor, Unison member and We Won’t Pay activist - 14/03/2007: Northern Ireland: Assembly election produces another sectarian headcount
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI), Belfast - 07/03/2007: Ireland North: Water charges a key issue in Assembly election campaign
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI), Belfast - 14/02/2007: Northern Ireland: Another election, another recipe for sectarian deadlock
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI), Belfast - 03/02/2007: Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein’s major U-turn
Peter Hadden, Belfast - 09/01/2007: Ireland North: Timetable for Assembly elections in trouble
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI), Belfast
2006: - 15/12/2006: Ireland North: ‘We Won’t Pay!’ anti-water charges campaign grows
Gary Mulchay, Chair ‘We Won’t Pay Campaign’, and Socialist Party member,
Belfast - 12/12/2006: Northern Ireland talks: Another deadline! Will it work?
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast, Northern Ireland - 04/08/2006: Northern Ireland: A history of missed opportunities
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Ireland - 12/06/2006: Ireland: After Michael McIlveen’s murder
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party, Belfast, Northern Ireland - 29/05/2006: Northern Ireland: Unite against sectarianism
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party, Belfast - 27/03/2006: Northern Ireland: Historic strike victory for postal workers…
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 09/02/2006: Northern Ireland: Belfast postal workers on unofficial strike
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party (CWI), Belfast - 06/02/2006: Northern Ireland: British fears of civil war and "a Portugal on our
doorstep" in 1975 state papers
Ciaran Mulholland, Belfast, Socialist Party
2005: - 21/11/2005: Northern Ireland: Towards conflict or peace?
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (cwi), Belfast - 20/11/2005: Northern Ireland: New Labour announces huge onslaught on public sector
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party (CWI), Belfast - 10/10/2005: Northern Ireland: Lessons of Northern Ireland
Niall Mulholland, cwi - 14/09/2005: Northern Ireland: Clashes show failure of peace process
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party, Belfast - 06/09/2005: Northern Ireland: Dangerous rise in sectarianism over summer
Editorial from The Socialist, Ireland - 08/08/2005: Northern Ireland: After Ardoyne....
Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party, Ireland - 28/07/2005: Northern Ireland: IRA prepares statement on its future
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 08/06/2005: Northern Ireland: Largest union shifts left
Carol Barnett, Socialist Party, Belfast - 06/06/2005: Northern Ireland: Largest union backs fight against water charges
socialistworld - 06/06/2005: Northern Ireland: ‘Top union urges water tax boycott’
By David Gordon, from the Belfast Telegraph, 03 June 2005 - 29/05/2005: Northern Ireland: ’No choice’ election brings deadlock
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 23/05/2005: Ireland North: Non-payment can win - A reply to Gerry Adams
Gary Mulcahy - 13/05/2005: Northern Ireland: Elections produce another sectarian headcount
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 13/05/2005: Northern Ireland: Socialist Party’s support rises in local elections
Socialist Party members, Belfast - 03/05/2005: Northern Ireland: Socialist policies give an alternative to sectarian
division
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 14/04/2005: Northern Ireland: Republicanism in crisis
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, Belfast - 01/03/2005: Ireland North: IRA members’ involvement in murder provokes Catholic
uproar
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party, Belfast - 01/03/2005: IRA members’ involvement in murder provokes Catholic uproar
Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party, Belfast - 14/02/2005: Northern Ireland: Crisis for republicans - political alternative needed
Editorial from The Socialist. - 11/02/2005: Northern Ireland: British and Irish governments blame IRA for bank
robbery
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party (CWI), Belfast - 11/02/2005: Northern Ireland:: Joe Higgins calls for workers’ alternative
- 24/01/2005: Northern Ireland Assembly: Is it gone for good?
Ciaran Mulholland, Ireland
2004: 2003: - 16/12/2003: Northern Ireland: Civil Service workers hold one day strike over pay
By Socialist Party members, Belfast - 13/12/2003: Northern Ireland: End of the Road for the Assembly?
Peter Hadden, Belfast - 05/12/2003: Northern Ireland Assembley elections: Divided vote hides workers’
disillusionment
Peter Haddon, Belfast - 23/11/2003: Northern Ireland: Assembley elections - A socialist challenge
Socialist Party, Ireland - 18/11/2003: Northern Ireland: Assembley elections - Politicians deliver stalemate
and division
By Ciaran Mulholland - 15/11/2003: Northern Ireland: Assembley elections - Jim Barbour calls on Finance
Minister Ian Pearson to resign
Socialist Party, Ireland - 14/11/2003: Northern Ireland Assembly Election Campaign: Financial Appeal
Socialist Party - 13/11/2003: Northern Ireland: Assembley elections - Public Services - Not safe in
their hands!
By Carmel Gates - 12/11/2003: Northern Ireland Assembly elections: Launching a socialist challenge
Socialist Party, Ireland - 11/11/2003: Northern Ireland: Defend public services vote Socialist
Socialist Party, Ireland - 23/07/2003: Northern Ireland: Stop Racist attacks
Michael Okot, from Socialist Voice, paper of the Socialit Party, CWI in
Ireland - 20/07/2003: Northern Ireland: Can sectarian politics be challenged?
Peter Hadden, from Socialist Voice, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in
Ireland - 16/07/2003: Northern Ireland: Ulster Unionist Party split inevitable
Editorial from Socialist Voice, paper of the Socialist Party, Ireland. - 21/06/2003: Northern Ireland: Peace process permanently stalled?
Ciaran Mulholland - 16/06/2003: Norther Ireland: Sick of sectarian politics
Ciaran Mulholland - 02/06/2003: Northern Ireland: Socialist elected president of largest union in
Northern Ireland
Socialist Party, Belfast - 20/05/2003: Northern Ireland: Water privatisation
Ciaran Crossey - 18/05/2003: Northern Ireland: Army chiefs protected killers
- 08/05/2003: Northern Ireland Assembly elections: Only working class can end
sectarian impasse
Peter Hadden, Belfast - 08/05/2003: Northern Ireland: Airport workers demand the truth
From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and
Wales - 03/02/2003: Ireland: British 1972 Cabinet Papers reveal brutal repartition plan
Ciaran Mulholland, Belfast.
2002: - 18/10/2002: Ireland North: Workers must reclaim the peace
From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales
section of the CWI. - 18/10/2002: Ireland North: Socialist challenge for union leadership
From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales
section of the CWI. - 11/10/2002: Ireland North: What lies behind the Assembly’s collapse
Ciaran Mulholland, Belfast Socialist Party. From The Socialist, paper of
the Socialist Party, England and Wales section of the CWI. - 07/08/2002: Ireland North: Workers take action against sectarian attacks
By Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party, Belfast - 03/08/2002: Ireland North: Working class united by strike action
Gary Mulcahy, Belfast - 16/07/2002: Ireland North: Build the fight against sectarianism
Peter Haddon, Belfast Socialist Party - 28/06/2002: Ireland North: British State’s dirty war
Alison Hill, 26 June 2002 - 20/06/2002: Ireland North: Public sector strike
- 10/06/2002: Ireland North: Sectarian violence worsens in Belfast
Peter Hadden, Belfast - 21/01/2002: Ireland North: Strike against sectarianism
Peter Hadden, Socialist Party, 22 January 2002 - 18/01/2002: Ireland North: School Students United Against Sectarianism
Article from the Voice, paper of the Socialist Party, Ireland - 18/01/2002: Ireland North: School students against sectarianism. Press release
Socialist Party Ireland - 12/01/2002: Ireland North: Mass action will succeed
Socialist Party Ireland
2001:
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20/04/2013, "The Provisional IRA: from insurrection to parliament" by Tommy
McKearney looks in detail at the IRA’s development
26/02/2013, NIPSA union members seeking a new strategy to fight back against cuts
11/11/2012, Belfast ‘Socialism 2012’ debate and discussion event a great success
12/09/2012, A new sectarian front line opens
05/12/2011, "The message was clear, enough is enough!"
05/07/2011, Only united working class action can prevent further attacks
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