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Month: May 2020

Ireland-South

Instant Upright workers locked in a battle with their employer

May 27, 2020 Billy Flynn

Workers at the Instant Upright company based in CityWest in Dublin are locked, like the Debenhams’ workers, in a battle with their employer. Billy Flynn reports from the picket line. There are fifteen workers in […]

Ireland-North

Threats to journalists ongoing

May 27, 2020 Anton McCabe (National Executive Concil, National Union of Journalists – personal capacity)

Threats to journalists in the North are continuing, despite over quarter of a century of the ‘peace process’. Police made journalists on the Sunday World and Sunday Life aware of the latest threats. According to […]

Covid Pandemic

The Northern Ireland Executive’s road map to exit lockdown

May 21, 2020 D. Toolin

Tuesday [May 12th] two days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson released his government’s plan on how to end the lockdown, the Northern Ireland executive produced their own roadmap on reopening the economy. The document gave […]

Covid Pandemic

Stormont Ministers fail residents of care homes in face of Covid-19 pandemic

May 19, 2020 D. Toolin

It was always unavoidable that mistakes would be made during the handling of this pandemic. No public health threat on this scale has existed in any developed economy for many decades – and given that […]

Covid Pandemic

Defend union democracy even in a time of crisis!

May 16, 2020 CWI Ireland Reporter

Covid 19 has not only thrown capitalism into crisis it has also presented the trade union movement with some thorny democracy issues. The normal functioning of unions, members‘ meetings, conferences and elections, although often imperfect, […]

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  • Britain: 1 February – 500,000 workers taking national strike action across five unions January 27, 2023 Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1211), weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
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  • France: Two million demonstrate against Macron’s pension ‘reform’ January 21, 2023 Cécile Rimboud, Gauche révolutionnaire (CWI France)
  • Packed meeting in Derry city opposes BBC management plans to close Radio Foyle January 20, 2023 Anton McCabe, Derry North West Ireland Branch NUJ, and National Executive Council, NUJ (personal capacity)
  • Britain: Hundreds of thousands of workers to strike together on 1 February January 19, 2023 Editorial of the Socialist issue 1209 (paper of the Socialist Party, England & Wales)
  • Socialist Students groups campaign in solidarity with youth in Sri Lanka January 17, 2023 Séamus Smyth, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) East Midlands youth organiser
  • Upsurge of far-right activity in southern Ireland must be combatted by workers’ movement January 16, 2023 Statement by Militant Left (CWI Ireland)

Ireland – South

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Ireland – North

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    New Year: Same Old Healthcare Crisis

    January 16, 2023 Billy Flynn
    At the start of January, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) reported that there were 931 patients waiting on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals. A consultant in Emergency Medicine for Beaumont Hospital Dublin Dr Peadar Gilligan stated we would need an extra 5,000 beds in hospitals to cope with the [...]
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