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Communities unite to defend leisure centre jobs
In a show of cross-community, working-class unity, leisure centre workers from the Shankill Road and Falls Road, trade unionists and people from across Belfast came together to protest the declining...
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Save our special schools
On Tuesday 27th March, hundreds of parents, children, staff and trade unionists rallied in opposition to the proposal to close seven special needs schools across Belfast and merge them into three super...
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Civil servants to demand real payrise
The failure of the DUP and Sinn Féin to agree a basis to re-establish an Executive has hampered and delayed the annual round of pay negotiations for civil servants. When it became clear that there was...
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The Good Friday Agreement, Twenty Years On – It’s Time for a Real Peace Process
It is twenty years since the main sectarian political parties in Northern Ireland, and the British and Southern governments, signed a deal which paved the way for the establishment of a power-sharing...
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Rape trial highlights sexism in legal system and society
Women and young people demonstrated in their thousands last month after Ulster rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were acquitted of raping a young woman at a party. In Dublin and Belfast,...
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NIPSA: Important conference reaffirms union’s fighting stance
NIPSA, the largest of the Northern Ireland’s public sector unions, had its annual conference in Derry’s Millennium Forum at the end of May. At this conference, NIPSA members determine the key policies...
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ROSA’s Bus4Choice defies archaic laws
On 31st May, ROSA activists, working with doctors from Women on Web, took safe but illegal abortion pills outside Belfast’s Laganside Courts – the same courts where women have been sentenced for...
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TGI Fridays strike latest in young workers’ struggles
Workers in TGI Fridays were given two days’ notice before they were stripped of 40% of their card tips. For some, this can mean losing up to £250 per month. The reason given was to accommodate the...
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A Contested Past: Dealing with the Legacy of The Troubles
The tragedies of the past have left a deep and profoundly regrettable legacy of suffering. We must never forget those who have died or been injured, and their families. But we can best honour them...
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Bonfire debate can ignite conflict
In the aftermath of the Eleventh Night bonfires last year, Belfast City Council passed a Sinn Féin motion authorising the forced clearing of bonfire sites. When this policy was implemented against an...
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#WeDeserveBetter than Green & Orange can deliver!
Build a real peace process for the 99% Guinness Book of World Records rules mean Northern Ireland will escape international recognition for being without government for the longest period during peace...
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Fermanagh Save Our Services vigilant against further cuts
In late July, Fermanagh Save Our Services (FSOS) campaigners were contacted by concerned staff at the South-West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen, who informed them that the gynaecology &...
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Tyrone organises against toxic mining industry
Eighty people attended a hastily-organised public meeting to oppose the threat to Omagh and district’s water supply from exploratory drilling for minerals taking place 150 metres from the main...
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Far-right on the march: Threat to minorities and the left
On 9th June, 15,000 people marched in London behind the racist, far-right Football Lads Alliance, greatly outnumbering an anti-racist counter-protest. On same day, several hundred marched in Belfast in...
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Why I joined the Socialist Party
For someone who did not grow up with Marx in the household, the road to joining a socialist party is not straight and easy like a motorway. Instead it is a meandering and confusing country path,...
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Loughinisland journalists arrested for exposing collusion
“Imprisoning journalists who write about inconvenient truths is an unconscionable blow to press freedom – and indeed everyone’s freedom.” This is what British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted...
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Pro-choice tide sweeps forwards
We won’t be left behind! After a landslide vote of just under 67% to repeal the constitutional abortion ban on 25th May, on 18th September, the eighth amendment was formally repealed in the South,...
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RHI inquiry throws light on Stormont’s rotten culture
Allegations are flying about who was responsible and who knew what in regards to the Renewable Heating Incentive scheme (RHI), which saw businesses like the Ferrari showroom in Belfast being kept cosy...
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Bunting suspension won’t stop far-right
Jolene Bunting has been suspended from her position on Belfast City Council for 4 months while an investigation is carried out into a number of complaints against her. A statement from the Commissioner...
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Unions must mobilise to defeat the Far Right
Cross-community, left alternative needed Many young people and workers are looking at the growth of far-right populist forces across the world with deep-seated concern. From the election of...
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