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Oppose Tories’ legacy bill #billofshame
The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill is a historic act of cowardice from the Tories and…
North: Historic election marks new era of crisis for ‘peace process’
By Kevin Henry This year’s Assembly election was historic with Sinn Féin emerging as the largest party, the…
North: Springtime of discontent – co-ordinated action can win real pay rises
Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party in the North “SPRINGTIME OF DISCONTENT” was the headline…
Northern Assembly elections: We need a socialist alternative to sectarian division
By Daniel Waldron THE OVERARCHING nature of the Assembly election on 5 May will, unfortunately, be deeply sectarian.…
Regina Coeli staff dismissed: Bring the hostel into public ownership!
By Rebecca Jane McMonagle Employees of Regina Coeli House in West Belfast were dismissed on Friday, 25 February,…
North: Stormont backs Thatcher’s anti-trade union laws
By Kevin Henry In the aftermath of the historic 1984/5 miners’ strike in Britain, Margaret Thatcher as part…
North: Mounting evidence exposes “systemic” collusion
By Kevin Henry Martin O’Hagan was a journalist and trade unionist murdered in 2001. He was murdered for…
Energy cost hikes in the North: Take the energy companies into public ownership
By Eoin Dawson From December 2021, Firmus energy implemented a 38% rise in the cost of gas across…
Tweeting bile & hate: What Doug Beattie’s tweets say about the political establishment in the North
By Amy Ferguson Ulster Unionist Party leader, Doug Beattie, has been dragged into the spotlight over a chain…
“Derry – This was murder”: 50 years since Bloody Sunday
By Sean Burns Sunday, 30 January 1972 saw one of the bloodiest and most callous atrocities committed during…
