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14 June 2017
Northern Ireland: DUP propping up the Tories
For a real cross-community socialist alternative: Theresa May's humiliating failure to win a parliamentary majority has placed the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) at the centre of UK politics, with the party set to prop up the Tories through a 'confidence and supply' agreement, writes Daniel Waldron, Socialist Party Northern Ireland (CWI Ireland).
29 March 2017
Martin McGuinness: from IRA leader to Stormont minister
The funeral of Martin McGuinness, Irish republican and former deputy first minister of Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive, took place on 23 March
22 March 2017
Northern Ireland: divisive election a warning
The sectarian nature of the election - as well as the perceived pressure on voters to vote 'tactically' given a reduction in the number of seats - in general served to knock back forces seen as challenging the establishment from the left
18 January 2017
Northern Ireland calls snap election: back Labour Alternative
Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive has fallen over the 'cash for ash' energy scandal. Voters will elect a new assembly on 2 March
11 January 2017
'Cash for ash' scandal set to bring down Northern Ireland government
The 'renewable heat incentive' scandal has prompted Martin McGuinness's resignation as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister
4 January 2017
Northern Ireland: 'Cash for ash' scam shows need for non-sectarian, socialist politics
"42% of people in Northern Ireland live in fuel poverty and it is much higher among elderly households. 13,000 are using foodbanks and politicians do nothing, yet public money will pay for the heating of the Northern Ireland Ferrari showroom for the next 20 years."
17 February 2016
Rally to defend jobs in Northern Ireland: "We won't sit on the sidelines"
On 8 February, 800 people gathered in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, in opposition to the threatened destruction of manufacturing jobs in the area.
9 December 2015
Northern Ireland: movement needed for abortion rights
On 30 November, in a landmark case, Belfast High Court ruled that Northern Ireland's archaic abortion laws contravene human rights and that terminations should be permitted in cases of fatal foetal abnormality and where pregnancy is the result of sexual crime.
11 November 2015
Huge support for socialist in Northern Ireland union election
The last six weeks have seen one of the most high profile trade union elections in Northern Ireland for decades. The election was for general secretary of public sector union Nipsa, the largest union in Northern Ireland.
16 September 2015
Northern Ireland Executive crisis
The devolved government administration in Northern Ireland is in danger of total collapse. A crisis erupted in the aftermath of the killing of ex-IRA member Kevin McGuigan in Belfast on 13 August
18 March 2015
Northern Ireland: Workers strike back
Friday 13 March saw tens of thousands of workers in education, health, civil services and, importantly, public transport, take part in coordinated strike action against a Stormont austerity agenda, writes Kevin Henry.
13 March 2015
Northern Ireland public sector strike against austerity
Tens of thousands of workers have today united in a one-day public sector strike across Northern Ireland
11 March 2015
Northern Ireland public sector general strike
A Northern Ireland public sector general strike, organised by Nipsa and other trade unions, is taking place on 13 March in opposition to austerity
28 January 2015
Despite efforts by Stormont politicians and many in the Northern Ireland media to vilify them, striking NI Water workers have won significant concessions from management
Bill Webster speaking in 1984, photo Dave Sinclair
29 October 2014
William (Bill) Webster died in August after a long illness, aged 73
The British army was sent to Northern Ireland, not to defend beleaguered Catholics but to defend private property and British imperialism
29 October 2014
Film review: On the streets of Belfast in 1971
This film, on general release, shows what it was like for a newly sent over British soldier during a few days in Belfast in 1971
Iain Paisley in 1987, photo Dave Sinclair
17 September 2014
Ian Paisley: Peacemaker or warmonger?
Obituary: How will hard line unionist Ian Paisley, who has died at the age of 88, be remembered?
5 March 2014
Northern Ireland rocked by 'on the runs' crisis
The past continues to haunt the present in Northern Ireland. In the last week of February a major crisis rocked the Northern Ireland Executive and almost brought it crashing down
22 May 2013
At this year's G8 summit in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland on 17-18 June, heads of the largest capitalist economies will discuss how they can further the interests of the super-rich, big business and the bankers.
16 January 2013
Northern Ireland: Flag issue turmoil illustrates failure of the 'peace process'
Trade unions must offer a clear cross-community, anti-sectarian class alternative: Turmoil over the issue of the flying of the union flag has now continued across Northern Ireland for six weeks, writes Ciaran Mulholland , CWI Northern Ireland.
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