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100 years since the Belfast Pogroms: A warning from history
Build a socialist alternative to sectarianism today! By Kevin Henry This week marks 100 years since the outbreak of the Belfast pogroms, when the city saw serious sectarian violence and the expulsion...
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Education: No return until it’s safe
The recent announcement by Peter Weir, the NI Education Minister, that all pupils are set to return to school in September full-time will bring mixed feelings for parents and teachers alike, who no...
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Stormont drives through health cuts under cover of pandemic
By Lucy Marron The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the reality of years of chronic underfunding of the NHS. The reality of cutbacks has been evident in the scramble to obtain appropriate PPE, the...
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NI Executive stumbles from crisis to crisis
By Kevin Henry In the early stages of the Covid crisis, we were told the Stormont Executive would rise above politics and present a united front against the virus. This came after a period when cracks...
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Capitalism & Covid-19: no future for young people
By Ann Katrin Orr Although not the underlying cause, Covid-19 has been the trigger for a global economic downturn. The UK economy has now officially entered the deepest recession on record. Northern...
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Downgrading Fiasco: Young people beat Tories & Stormont!
A-Level protest organisers say “people power forced Weir’s U-turn” The organisers of a protest today (17/08/2020) in Belfast against the statistical adjustment of exam results have reacted to Peter...
View ArticleBosses & politicians, to blame for Covid spike!
Stop scapegoating ordinary people! Enforce workplace health and safety! By Daniel Waldron The Stormont politicians – like those at Westminster and in Dublin – are brazenly trying to scapegoat ordinary...
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School reopening: No return until it’s safe!
Emergency funding now! The Socialist Party says: No return until it’s safe: education workers, parents and students should democratically decide when and how schools reopenReduce class sizes to allow...
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Diane Dodds threatens civil servants’ health and safety
by William Brooks, NIPSA rep (personal capacity) Last week, we were told Diane Dodds and the Stormont Executive were urging all civil servants to return to their offices, in order to boost city and...
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Alliance call for water charges: No way, we won’t pay!
Non-payment has defeated water charges in Ireland, North and South No privatisation – Tax the super-rich & invest The Alliance Party – through its infrastructure spokesperson, Andrew Muir – has...
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Reopening of schools: A teacher speaks out
This week sees the reopening of schools in Northern Ireland. Ahead of that, Kevin Henry from the Socialist Party spoke to Susan Parlour, an English teacher and NI Vice-President of the National...
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Troubles Victims’ Payment Scheme: A socialist perspective
The controversy around the Victims’ Payment Scheme is an important example of how, decades into the ‘peace process’, there has been a failure to deal with the legacy of the Troubles. Instead,...
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Stop scapegoating ordinary people! Enforce workplace health & safety
By Daniel Waldron The Stormont politicians – like those at Westminster and in Dublin – are brazenly trying to scapegoat ordinary people for an increase in Covid infection which has been caused by...
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Student protest expose inequality in the education system
By Róise McCann The attempted use of a biased algorithm to predict a-Level grades in the UK in the absence of exams was met with protest and resistance by young people across these islands. The use of...
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Covid regulations: Contradictions between public health and private profit
Fight for democratic control over health and safety The resurgence of Covid-19 cases in Northern Ireland and elsewhere is deeply concerning, particularly as we face into the winter period. Socialists...
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The Brexit Saga continues: workers’ movement must act independently!
Joint statement between Socialist Party and Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland (both part of International Socialist Alternative) Last year, politics was dominated by the...
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“Universities must not become the care homes of a Covid second wave”
Students and education workers must organise for safe, free education By South Belfast Socialist Party Queen’s University now joins Glasgow and Manchester in locking down halls of residence due to...
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Stormont unites with Tories to attack immigrant rights
by Peter McGregor As part of the process of the UK leaving the EU, many bills are being pushed through Westminster. The Immigration and Social Security Coordination Bill is one of these, which seeks...
View ArticleYoung people stand up to bigotry and oppression
By Ciara Rainey In recent years, huge strides have been made in both LGBTQ+ and women’s rights here. It was only the beginning of this year when we saw same-sex marriage introduced, and later abortion...
View ArticleNo cuts to bus services! Fight for free, fully funded and accessible public...
By Mike McCourt In recent weeks, Bus Éireann and Translink have announced route cuts and redundancies respectively, hitting major blows to the working class on both sides of the border. In September,...
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