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Fight for free, public education!
Students have been a constant target of a capitalist establishment that relies on exploiting and controlling working class people. Jeremy Corbyn’s call to scrap tuition fees and to introduce...
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Marriage equality: Cross-community campaign can break DUP blockade
A majority of DUP voters now support equal marriage. With the recent Love Equality march and the biggest ever Belfast Pride parade, it is apparent that the general attitude of people in Northern...
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Women Won’t Wait! Abortion Rights Now!
1967 – Women in Britain win access to abortion on NHS 2017 – Women in NI still denied access and criminalised What we need is real choice. Women should be able to decide if and when they want children...
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No to Paramilitary Intimidation! – End the threat to Probation Board staff
All workers have the right to work free from threat and intimidation The Socialist Party condemns the threat to staff employed by the Probation Board of Northern Ireland (PBNI) in the strongest...
View ArticleBorder Poll: Path to a solution or sectarian division?
At the Dangerous Ideas Festival 2017 in Dublin, Sinn Fein and the Socialist Party debated the question of a border poll. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
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Bombardier Jobs Threat: Market Fails Workers, Public Ownership the Solution
The US International Trade Commission will decide on 1st February whether to uphold 300% tariffs on Bombardier’s innovative C-Series jet as a result of complaints made by Boeing. If upheld, this...
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Schlumberger: Naked Profiteering Must be Fought
Susan Fitzgerald, Unite Industrial Officer and Socialist Party Activist. The Socialist spoke to Susan Fitzgerald, Socialist Party activist and Unite Industrial Officer representing workers at...
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Reclaiming Our History: Common History, Common Struggle – Peter Hadden
2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of what is commonly accepted to be the start of the “Troubles”. In a few brief months in 1968 and 1969, Northern Ireland changed forever. A chain of events mobilised...
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NIPSA General Council Elections 2018: Vote Broad Left!
2018 has opened with a crisis across our entire health service. Working people are both worried and angry – worried about the service they will receive if they become ill and angry about the unending...
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Coolmoyne House Fire – Lessons of Grenfell Not Learned
Coolmoyne House, Dunmurry. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, the immediate response of the Housing Executive in maintaining its 32 high-rise blocks was to check the fire extinguishers and put...
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Barry McElduff & Kingsmill Controversy: Sinn Féin’s mask slips
Writing in the Irish News, Sinn Féin’s Northern leader Michelle O’Neill argued that the stand taken by her party in relation to the ongoing political crisis is about “the principles of mutual respect...
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Defend Pay and Pensions! Solidarity with the UCU Strike!
The Socialist Party gives its full backing to the University and College Union (UCU) members in Queen’s University, University of Ulster and 59 universities in Britian taking up to 14 days of strike...
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Stormont talks collapse: The dead end of sectarian politics
Theresa May and Leo Varadkar arrived at Stormont with talk of an imminent deal to end 13 months of stalemate between the DUP and Sinn Féin. The media was dominated with speculation that the DUP was on...
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The Ulster Rugby rape trial: No to victim-blaming & rape culture
During the trial in which Ulster and Ireland rugby players are accused of raping a young woman at a party, there has been fury at many of the comments made by the defence in court. When the young woman...
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The real lessons of the civil rights movement
Student sit-down in Donegall Square East, Belfast, N.Ireland, as part of the civil rights campaign. Copyright Image from Victor Patterson, A public row has erupted since Sinn Féin National Chairman...
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UCU Strike – Bosses on the run!
Only two days into 14 days of planned strike action by academic staff in Queen’s University, the University of Ulster and 59 universities across Britain and the front page headline of the Times ran...
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Derry Girls: Laughter and tears of working-class life during Troubles
It’s fair to say that the Channel 4 hit Derry Girls, which was commissioned for a second series after its first episode, had us all in laughter and tears by the end of it. The series is set in Derry,...
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Boojum worker speaks out
A Boojum worker spoke to The Socialist about conditions in their workplace and their campaign to organise for change alongside Unite. When you walk through Boojum’s doors, you’re greeted by friendly...
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#IBelieveHer – ROSA statement on Ulster Rugby trial
ROSA, a socialist-feminist organisation, initiated by women in the Socialist Party issued a statement at the time of the verdict of the Ulster Rugby trial. The Socialist Party fully supports the...
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Review: Martin Lynch’s “We’ll walk hand in hand”
Written by Martin Lynch Lyric Theatre, Belfast Reviewed by Lucy Simpson We’ll Walk Hand in Hand is a play that was recently shown in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. The play was written to mark the...
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