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Journalists’ strike solid

A 24 hour strike by BBC journalists in Northern Ireland has been 100% solid on May 19th. Journalists in the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) walked out on one of the busiest news days of [...]
Ireland-North

NI Local Elections

Sinn Féin, the Democratic Unionist Party and the Alliance Party emerged as the main winners from last week’s local government elections in Northern Ireland. This shows a greater political polarisation taking place amongst nationalists and unionists [...]
Ireland-South

Garda escort for far right protesters- defend LGBTQ rights

Thursday afternoon saw a demonstration of anti LGBTQ and far right protesters descending on Swords. The issue of the day is the existence of LGBTQ books that are available in the Swords library in the [...]
Ireland-South

Eviction Ban Ends: Government Turns the Screw on Renters

Once again, the Irish government uses its power to protect the economic interests of an influential section of the capitalist class. By ending the ban on evictions, while the housing crisis lurches towards a social [...]
Ireland-South

Capitalism Does Not Care about the Elderly: Nursing Home Scandal

Revelations earlier this year about a cover up by the state in the nursing home sector shocked many and exposed yet again the callousness of the Irish capitalist state. Thousands of elderly or vulnerable residents [...]
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Build a Socialist Future to Stop the far-Right

One of the symptoms of a decaying capitalism is the rise of far-Right and fascist forces. Capitalists are never willing to redirect their wealth towards solving the immense social problems they create. Instead, their alternative [...]
Ireland-South

Review: 406 Days Debenhams Documentary

406 Days, a documentary about the Debenhams strike was premiered at the closing night of the Dublin International Film Festival. The documentary was directed by Joe Lee and produced by Fergus Dowd and tells the [...]

Scotland: North Sea oil industry workers escalate strike action June 2, 2023 Wayne Scott, Unite Scotland Young Members Committee (personal capacity)
A socialist charter for LGBTQ+ rights June 1, 2023 Michael Johnson, Socialist Party LGBTQ+ group (CWI England & Wales)
Where now for Scottish independence? May 31, 2023 Philip Stott, from Socialism Today (June 2023 issue) monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
The rise and fall of Corbynism, the Left and the fight for a party of the worker class May 30, 2023 Hannah Sell, from Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party, CWI England and Wales)
Tory government’s anti-union ‘Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill’ set to become law May 27, 2023 Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1229) (CWI England & Wales)
24-hour strike by BBC journalists in Northern Ireland 100% solid May 26, 2023 CWI
Northern Ireland local elections: Nationalist and Unionist polarisation squeezes smaller parties May 25, 2023 Niall Mulholland

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