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Workers occupy Harland & Wolff – Nationalise the shipyard to save jobs and...
With Harland & Wolff just days from going into administration, placing 130 skilled jobs at risk, workers at the shipyard in Belfast – members of Unite and GMB trade unions – have begun an...
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Abortion rights, marriage equality: The North is Now!
Fight to make our rights a reality! Over three-quarters of MPs in the House of Commons have voted to extend abortion rights and equal marriage here via amendments to the Northern Ireland Bill. If made...
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NI economic downturn: Heading for a new global recession?
Following reports earlier this year of ‘concerning contraction’ in the Northern Ireland economy, Ulster Bank researchers have now warned that we may have already begun a downturn. Their study,...
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Young people deserve integrated education
Harding Memorial Primary is set to become east Belfast’s first integrated school. Almost 90% of the school community voted in favour of this move. The school, situated on the Cregagh Road, balloted...
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August 1969: Workers stand against the sectarian stream
Events in August 1969 are often considered to mark the start of the Troubles. In an eruption of violence, seven people were killed and 750 injured. 1,500 Catholic and 300 Protestant families were...
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Harland & Wolff: The hidden history of workers’ struggle
The history of Northern Ireland is often present as simply being of two traditions – nationalism and unionism – in conflict with each other. Almost everything is painted as belonging to one or the...
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Fight for Green Jobs! We need a socialist industrial strategy
Boris Johnson has sent his sympathies to Harland & Wolff workers over the threat to the shipyard but has said that ultimately its future rests upon a “commercial decision”. With mealy-mouthed...
View ArticleAugust 1969: The North Erupts
Below is Chapter 9 of Common History, Common Struggle entitled “August 1969: The North Erupts”. On the fiftieth anniversary of the events of 1969 it is pertinent that Socialists, Trade Unionists and...
View ArticleVictory to the Shipyard workers!
Below is the text of a leaflet distributed by Socialist Party activists at a rally to save the shipyard Workers at Harland & Wolff have shown real determination by occupying the shipyard and...
View ArticleCivil servants continue battle against poverty pay
The strike by workers in the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) on 26th July was the largest industrial action seen here since March 2015. Thousands of members of the Northern Ireland Public...
View ArticleStop cuts to our fire service!
The Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service has announced a raft of cuts aimed at dealing with a £3.26 million funding shortfall. Belfast has lost one fire engine, but the worst hit towns are...
View ArticleFracking and mining threaten our environment for profit
by Donal O’Cofaigh The anti-fracking movement in Belcoo called the first of a series of public meetings in the area with the aim of raising awareness of the renewed threat posed by the latest license...
View ArticleKeep up the pressure to secure Abortion Rights & Marriage Equality
Build united struggle against homophobia, sexism and capitalism In July, MPs at Westminster voted to introduce same-sex marriage and decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland if the Stormont Assembly...
View ArticleNationalise Wrightbus to save jobs – Socialist industrial strategy urgently...
The Socialist Party sends solidarity to the 1,200 Wrightbus workers faced with redundancy since the firm went into administration on 25th September. Staff were informed that talks with potential...
View ArticleHarland & Wolff Occupation: Historic struggle saves jobs
For nine weeks, workers at Harland & Wolff in Belfast occupied the shipyard after the company went into administration, placing skilled jobs at risk. The workers at the shipyard – members of Unite...
View ArticleOver 90% vote yes for strike action in Royal Mail ballot – victory to the...
by Paddy Meehan, CWU Member CWU members in Royal Mail and Parcelforce across Britain and Northern Ireland were balloted for industrial action in response to a new management’s sledgehammer approach to...
View ArticleHarland & Wolff and Wrightbus: Workers save jobs and show their power
After a historic nine-week occupation, workers and Harland & Wolff have secured the future of the iconic shipyard, for now at least, with all workers who had chosen not to take redundancy...
View ArticleWorkers need a political voice!
By Neil Moore Recent months have marked an upsurge in the struggles of workers and young people across Northern Ireland. School students are taking a stand for their future and walking out of school...
View ArticleWorkers fighting back – we need a programme to win!
Fight for every job, resist every attackLink up the struggles – coordinate action across the public & private sectorsBuild a united movement against austerity & for democratic public...
View ArticleQUB: Shameful history of gay conversion therapy
by David Linton It was recently revealed that Queen’s University Belfast performed ‘aversion therapy’ on gay students during the 1960s in an effort to produce ‘heterosexual interest’. After one victim...
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