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1 February 2007
Northern Ireland: DELEGATES AT the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Dublin on 28 January voted by an overwhelming majority to back a leadership motion to support the police and judicial system in Northern Ireland....
11 January 2007
Northern Ireland: New governing executive looks in doubt
THE BRITISH and Irish governments are again attempting to push the main political parties in Northern Ireland towards forming a governing executive. ...
25 May 2006
Unite against sectarianism in Northern ireland
A FIFTEEN year old Catholic school student, Michael McIlveen, was brutally assaulted in a sectarian attack in Ballymena, County Antrim on 7 May, writes Ciaran Mulholland, Belfast.
25 May 2006
Bobby Sands Nothing but an Unfinished Song
Review: Twenty five years ago in May, Bobby Sands, MP, died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. Over the next few months, nine other young republican prisoners followed him, demanding jail reforms...
8 December 2005
GEORGE BEST's funeral took place on 3 December in Belfast. Tens of thousands lined the streets to show their appreciation of his talent,...
6 October 2005
Why the IRA campaign failed to defeat the British state
Lessons of Northern Ireland: AFTER THE recent report confirming that the IRA has 'decommissioned' its arms, NIALL MULHOLLAND looks at the approach taken by socialists to the IRA's campaign after the 'Troubles' re-emerged in the late 1960s...
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...
9 June 2005
Largest union in Northern Ireland backs fight against water charges
THE FOLLOWING press release from the 'We Won't Pay' campaign, in Northern Ireland, a campaign to organise mass non-payment of water charges (taxes), which the government intends to introduce...
26 May 2005
Northern Ireland - fighting for socialism
THE SOCIALIST Party in Northern Ireland has been fighting now for decades to end the problems of sectarian divisions through a working-class, socialist and internationalist solution...
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...
12 March 2005
Crisis for republicans in Northern Ireland - political alternative needed
THE NORTHERN Bank robbery in Belfast, Robert McCartney's killing and the attempt to cover it up, and then the allegations about the multi-million pound criminal empire run by the IRA have put the leadership of the repub...
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...
12 February 2005
Northern Ireland decommissioning crisis: The failure of sectarian politics
THE IRA announced on 2 February that it had withdrawn its offer to complete the process of arms decommissioning in Northern Ireland...
9 October 2004
As Politicians Talk - Sectarian Divisions Deepen
Northern Ireland: DESPITE THE failure of the Leeds Castle talks last month, the British and Irish governments are continuing talks with Sinn Fein and the DUP in an attempt to resurrect the Northern Ireland Assembly and to re-establish an Executive...
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...
8 May 2004
FBU conference: Time To Break The Link With New Labour
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) conference starts on 11 May. In the wake of last year's national strikes against low pay, the two keynote conference debates will be on pay and the union's link with New Labour...
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...
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