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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...
5 July 2003
Northern Ireland; Has The Peace Process Permanently Stalled?
THE PEACE process remains in deep crisis. Despite desperate efforts by the British and Irish governments, it has not proved possible to re-establish the Executive, and Assembly elections have been postponed...
7 June 2003
Northern Ireland: Socialist To Lead Biggest Union
SOCIALIST PARTY (CWI in Ireland) member Carmel Gates has been elected President of NIPSA, Northern Ireland's largest trade union...
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.
26 April 2003
Northern Ireland: State Terrorism
THE NEW report by Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir John Stevens shows clear long-term collusion between Britain's security forces and loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland...
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...
14 September 2001
Northern Ireland: Working Class Must Unite Against Sectarianism
THE SITUATION outside the Holy Cross primary school has developed into an ugly stand-off as community leaders talk about trying to settle the conflict...
24 August 2001
Northern Ireland: Workers Must Challenge The Bigots
THIS SUMMER has seen further blows to what little remains of the Northern Ireland peace process. The latest is the arrest of three IRA members in Colombia where they were training members of the FARC guerrilla...
20 July 2001
Rees report: THE SOCIALIST has consistently argued that the introduction of tuition fees and the abolition of the student grant would deter thousands of students from going to university, due to financial hardship, writes Sarah Mayo, Save Free Education.
13 July 2001
Northern Ireland 'peace process': Sliding Into Sectarian Conflict
'PEACE PROCESS' is fast becoming a misnomer to describe what is happening in Northern Ireland. Trimble's resignation as First Minister has put the future of the Assembly and therefore of the Good Friday...
6 July 2001
Northern Ireland: New Sectarian Dangers - Workers' Response Needed
THE RESIGNATION of David Trimble, First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly over the issue of IRA arms decommissioning, ahead of the Orange Order 'marching season' with its expected flashpoints at Drumcree and elsewhere, poses new sectarian dangers for the working class as ROBERT CONNOLLY ex...
15 June 2001
Northern Ireland: The No Choice Election
DAVID TRIMBLE'S position as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) hangs in the balance after his party's disastrous showing in the Westminster election, writes Peter Hadden, Belfast.
2 March 2001
FOLLOWING A marvellous campaign sustained over two years, the Northern Ireland term-time workers have won an historic victory, writes Mike Forster Joint Chief Education Steward, UNISON (personal capacity).
3 November 2000
Northern Ireland: Another Middle East in the Making?
DECISIONS TAKEN by delegates at last Saturday's Ulster Unionist Council could well spell the end of the Northern Ireland Assembly, writes Peter Hadden, Belfast.
14 July 2000
Northern Ireland: Parades crisis needs working-class solution to wider sectarian conflict
WHATEVER THE immediate outcome over Garvaghy Road and other disputed parade routes the conflict over parades will not be resolved this summer...
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.
18 February 2000
Northern Ireland: On the horns of a dead-end dilemma
THE NORTHERN Ireland 'peace process' has stalled. The Assembly and other institutions set up after the 1998 Good Friday agreement have been suspended, returning direct rule to London. The IRA has withdrawn...
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