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15 September 2005
Northern Ireland: Riots show failure of peace process
THE SCENES in Belfast and other Northern Ireland towns last weekend give a stark warning that the 'peace process' could at some point unravel and be quickly replaced by widespread sectarian conflict...
11 August 2005
Northern Ireland after the IRA statement: Why the 'peace process' continues to flounder
THE REACTION within Northern Ireland to the IRA statement ordering its units to "dump arms" says a lot more about the current state of the 'peace process' than the statement itself...
12 May 2005
Polarisation widens in Northern Ireland
NORTHERN IRELAND'S general election results confirmed what the Socialist Party expected - that two main sectarian blocks would dominate...
5 March 2005
Northern Ireland: Horrific murder enrages local community
THOUSANDS OF people have attended protest vigils in Catholic working-class areas of Belfast over the last two weeks...
3 July 2004
AS WE reported in last week's socialist, workers at the Dessian Products PVC windows factory in Belfast have been on strike since 19 May. The strike began over the sacking of Paddy McCloskey, one of the two TGWU shop stewards in the plant...
21 February 2004
Belfast Airport Workers Win Trade Union Inquiry
THREE SHOP stewards from Aldergrove Airport, Belfast, who were sacked for daring to strike in support of a pay rise, have won an important part of their battle for justice...
6 December 2003
Northern Ireland elections: Divided Vote Hides Workers' Disillusionment
NORTHERN IRELAND'S elections on 26 November were extremely polarised with the hard-line Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on one side and Sinn Fein on the other, gaining support...
22 November 2003
Northern Ireland: Socialists Stand For Workers' Unity
THE SOCIALIST Party in Northern Ireland is challenging the right-wing and sectarian parties who have dominated Northern Ireland politics for generations by putting up two candidates (in East and South Belfast) for the Assembly elections on 26 November...
15 November 2003
Northern Ireland elections: Capitalist Politicians Bring Stalemate And Division
NORTHERN IRELAND will be going to the polls on 26 November. But no agreement has been reached on how a new Executive will be put in place after the election...
10 May 2003
Northern Ireland: Only Working Class Can End Sectarian Impasse
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, writes Peter Hadden, Belfast.
10 May 2003
Airport Workers Demand The Truth
IN MAY 2002 24 security workers at Belfast international airport were sacked for going on strike. The events around the sackings have led some of those involved to suspect collaboration between the management...
14 March 2003
International Protests: AT LUNCHTIME on 5 March, Sergels square in Stockholm was filled by school students demanding an immediate stop to war preparations against Iraq...
9 November 2001
Northern Ireland: An Agreement Based On Division
THE DRAMATIC events of the last few weeks have kept the faltering 'peace process' on the road. The first act of IRA decommissioning and the decisions of the Women's Coalition and the Alliance Party...
24 August 2001
Irish Trade Union Democracy Under Attack
NEARLY TWO months ago, Mick O'Reilly, the regional secretary of the Amalgamated and General Workers Union (ATGWU) and its Belfast organiser, Eugene McGlone were suspended by Bill Morris, the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) in Britain...
1 September 2000
What's behind the Loyalist Feud?
THE LONG-simmering feud between the UDA/UFF and UVF last week spilled over into a bloody battle for control of the Shankill area, the loyalist heartland in Belfast...
14 July 2000
Northern Ireland: The Alternative to the annual battleground
ON MONDAY afternoon Northern Ireland ground to a halt as the Orange Order blocked roads in protest over Drumcree, writes Peter Hadden.
12 May 2000
Northern Ireland: Why the IRA shifted on arms
THIS TIME there can be no doubt that the latest IRA statement on decommissioning is indeed a "seismic shift", writes Peter Hadden, Belfast.
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