“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 […]
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 […]
Nationalise Bombardier! A brewing international trade dispute is threatening thousands of jobs in Northern Ireland. One thousand workers at Canadian aerospace company Bombardier’s Belfast plant are engaged in building wings for its new C-series passenger […]
The stunning electoral upset delivered by Jeremy Corbyn on the basis of a radical, left platform has had an electrifying impact and is potentially a historic turning point. He has engaged a new generation […]
Workers need strong socialist alternative at ballot box and in unions. The snap Northern Ireland Assembly election took place in the aftermath of the ‘cash for ash’ scandal which emerged in December, the most recent […]
Union and Labour leaders should join NIPSA and other combative unions in opposing bosses’ club
But positive moves against sectarian politics
Movement needed for women’s rights
Austerity and corporate welfare has failed! Fight for public investment!
Socialist Party’s Patrick Mulholland gains 44% – Broad Left emerges stronger throughout NIPSA
CWI member, Patrick Mulholland, leads Left campaign for leadership of NIPSA union
Paul Murphy addresses Irish parliament
To end oppression we need to fight to end this system, uniting working people, fighting for equality
How to fight cuts, sectarianism and to build workers’ unity
LGBT and women’s rights campaigners boosted
Build a united mass movement to challenge racism, sectarianism and all forms of bigotry
For a second day of strike action in the run-up to the May general election!
Struggle can force politicians back from austerity measures
Dead-end of rightwing, sectarian politics – new anti-sectarian party which fights for working class needed
The past continues to haunt the present in Northern Ireland
56 care homes under threat
Trade unions need to actively combat sectarian threats and attacks, in the workplaces and in the communities
3,000 march from Enniskillen to summit perimeter fence
A group of 12 MEPs from the left wing group in the European Parliament, GUE-NGL, have signed a joint message of support to Anti-G8 protestors ahead of the summit in two weeks’ time.
Secret Services bolster police ahead of G8 Summit in N Ireland
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 […]
"The Provisional IRA: from insurrection to parliament" by Tommy McKearney looks in detail at the IRA’s development
NIPSA union members seeking a new strategy to fight back against cuts
Only united working class capable of cutting across increased division and conflict
A socialist analysis
Belfast ‘Socialism 2012’ debate and discussion event a great success
The question of an independence referendum in Scotland has provoked rumblings on both sides of the sectarian divide.
Only united working class action can prevent further attacks
A lifelong socialist activist in Ireland
DUP and Sinn Fein mired in scandals and face growing opposition
Crisis, corruption, sectarianism….
Out of touch political establishment in hock to business world
2010 – Time for united working class opposition!
Why I left Sinn Fein and joined the Socialist Party
Domhnall O Cobhthaigh leaves Sinn Fein to help “build cross-community opposition to right-wing economic policies”
The role of the CWI in fighting fascism
Anti-racist campaigner receives death threats
Workers in Enfield and Basildon plants follow suit
‘No More Killings – For workers’ Unity!’
No return to sectarian conflict
Danger of sectarianism shows need for socialist alternative
Video report from the ’Irish News’ of Socialist Youth protest, on 9 January 2009
Socialists condemn role of Western imperialism and Barack Obama
Ruling Sinn Fein/Democratic Unionist Executive in stalemate
“Judgement strengthens all trade union members”
Sinn Fein and DUP welcome war monger with open arms
Shop stewards say they will now defy and resist the Unite injunction barring them from protesting at Transport House
"Unite are trying to deny us our democratic right to peacefully protest." Gordon McNeill
Gordon McNeill remains on hunger strike at Transport House – His protest enters the 14th day.
Sectarian politicians’ power-sharing Assembly not a solution
Legal bills understood to be paid – Unite union promise to make compensation offer
Workers’ health deteriorates dangerously – Urgent protests needed!
‘Power sharing’ Assembly government budget introduces deep cuts
A militant struggle against ‘power-sharing’ government attacks
"No alternative but to take this drastic action"
Sectarian parties lower taxes for big business while hiking taxes for workers
Opposition to water charges unites working people
Build non-payment in working class communities
United action to stop all sectarian attacks!
A fifteen year old Catholic school student, Michael McIlveen, was brutally assaulted in a sectarian attack in Ballymena town, County Antrim, on 7 May. He made it home but then collapsed and was taken to […]
Second week of industrial action against bosses’ bullying
Warnings of the effect of a British withdrawal
Schools, hospitals and jobs will be lost…higher rates and new water tax…
The scenes from the streets of Belfast and other towns across Northern Ireland during the weekend have provided a stark warning that the ’peace process’ could at some point unravel and be quickly replaced by […]
Can the parades issue be resolved?
Socialist Party member elected President of NIPSA
Non-payment ’only way’ to beat charges
During the elections all the main parties were forced to refer to the issue of water charges.
Offering a working class alternative to bigots and pro-market policies
Working class communities courageously speak out and protest for justice
Working class communities courageously speak out and protest for justice
Socialist Party Amendment to the Fine Gael Private Members’ Motion on Northern Ireland
As 2005 opens, the Peace Process is once again in deep crisis.
Since the announcement from direct-rule Ministers that water charges are to be imposed in Northern Ireland, the local political parties who shared power in the Assembly have fervently blamed each other for allowing water charges […]
Che Guevara has become an iconic figure. His face can be seen in the slums of Argentina, and on countless t-shirts across the globe.
Sectarian divisions deepen
”Time for a new working class party”
Workers at the Dessian Products factory in Apollo Road have been on strike since May 19. The strike began over the sacking of Paddy McCloskey, one of the two T&GWU shop stewards in the plant.
Across Western Europe there is a debate on the left as to the best way to create or recreate new mass parties of the working class. The sharp move to the right of the social […]
Will the truth come out?
ON 5 JANUARY Jeffrey Donaldson, Norah Beare and Arlene Foster announced that they were joining the DUP. Their move underlined the results of the recent elections. The DUP are now the largest unionist party and […]
On 11 December, the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) union held a very successful one-day strike. This was in protest against the derisory pay deal imposed by central government – a 0% cost of […]
Assembly elections
DESPITE MONTHS of negotiations, no agreement has been reached on how an Executive will be put in place after the election. At the last minute David Trimble rejected IRA decommissioning moves as not "transparent" enough […]
South Belfast Socialist Party candidate Jim Barbour today called on Finance Minister, Ian Pearson, to resign immediately over his handling of pay negotiations with civil servants.
The Socialist Party is contesting the upcoming Northern Ireland Assembly to be held on Nov 26th.
The Socialist Party has decided to challenge the right wing and sectarian parties by putting up two candidates for the Assembly. Voters in East and South Belfast will have the chance to elect someone who […]
For most people the only choice in this election is between the same old mix of sectarian and right wing politicians. But in two constituencies, voters will have a choice. The Socialist Party is standing […]
One of the most vicious recent attacks was on the home of a Muslim family in Craigavon. A gang of up to ten men armed with baseball bats threatened to burn the family out; they […]
In the last few weeks, the UUP has been convulsed by its most profound crisis since 1974. This crisis will have major consequences for the peace process.
The Peace process remains in deep crisis. Despite desperate efforts by the British and Irish governments over the last few months, it has not proved possible to re-establish the Executive, and the Assembly elections have […]
A RECENT opinion poll demonstrates that a significant minority of voters in Northern Ireland are sick of the sectarian parties and are looking for an alternative. Up to seventeen per cent declared their intention to […]
Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) member Carmel Gates has been elected President of NIPSA, Northern Ireland’s largest trade union and the main public sector union. The election took place at NIPSA’s conference last week and […]
THE NORTHERN Ireland Office has started the process to privatise the water services in Northern Ireland. Why?
ONLY WEEKS after a report showed how long-term collusion between Britain’s security forces and loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland had led to murders such as that of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, more evidence of […]
WITH ONLY days to go before the close of nominations and even though campaigning was already under way, Tony Blair has called off the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. Despite his assurance that they will go […]
Across Northern Ireland thousands of students walked out of schools on Day X, responding to the call from Youth Against War. The mood was determined.
Over 10 000 school students took part in the walk outs, rallies or in other forms of protest in the schools on March 5th.
Under the repartition proposal scheme, 300,000 Catholics would be moved west of the River Bann and 200,000 Protestants in the opposite direction. If necessary, force would be used against those who refused to move.
Health and postal workers in Northern Ireland were forced to take industrial action last week in protest against sectarian death threats from republican and loyalist paramilitaries.
THOUSANDS OF council workers, health and education workers joined the 17 July strike throughout Northern Ireland, picketing council offices, education and health boards, leisure centres and police stations.
In response to the sectarian killing of 20 year-old postal worker Daniel McColgan and the sectarian attacks and threats on school students, Socialist Youth has set up School Students United Against Sectarianism.
At a special open meeting to be held Thursday evening, school students from both communities will launch a new campaign to combat sectarianism and to organise a school students strike to mobilise a mass turnout […]
The Socialist Party and its forerunners in Northern Ireland have consistently campaigned for working class unity and the struggle for socialism as the only answer to the sectarian division that is part of every day […]
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