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Trade unionists respond to killing of Lyra McKee

Working class people from across the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland were revulsed by the shooting and death of a young female journalist, Lyra McKee, in Derry city, last Thursday evening. Anton McCabe, National Executive Council member of the National Union of

Apr 24, 2019

News & Analysis

Brexit: Trade unionists must stand for workers’ unity

By Kevin Henry As we go to press, it is over 750 days since the Stormont institutions collapsed in the wake of the RHI. This figure is likely to rise considerably, given the sectarian games of both the DUP and Sinn Féin

Mar 10, 2019

News & Analysis

Brexit and the border: A warning to the workers movement

By Socialist Party reporter On March 29th 2019 the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union. For seventeen months the British government and the EU negotiators have been struggling to reach a legally binding “withdrawal agreement” to govern the terms

Nov 22, 2018

News & Analysis

North- Bonfire debate can ignite conflict

In the aftermath of the Eleventh Night bonfires last year, Belfast City Council passed a Sinn Féin motion authorising the forced clearing of bonfire sites. When this policy was implemented against an anti-internment bonfire in the Divis area of west Belfast, it

Jul 14, 2018

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

Misogyny, sexism & capitalism in the dock

The outcome of the Belfast rape trial saw an explosion of spontaneous demonstrations in every major city in Ireland bringing to the surface opposition to the culture of sexism and victim blaming in the legal system and society generally. It comes against

Apr 11, 2018

Theory & History

Will the Agreement bring peace?- first published May 1998

The following article was first published in Socialism 2000, the precursor of Socialist Alternative, in the immediate aftermath of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement that was signed 20 years ago today. By Peter Hadden Around the world the Good Friday Agreement

Apr 10, 2018

Theory & History

British state repression, the IRA’s armed campaign and the Labour Movement

Article written by Peter Hadden in 2008 Death on the rock of Gibraltar – 20 years since SAS killing of three IRA volunteers It is twenty years since the execution style killing by the SAS of three IRA members in Gibraltar. In

Mar 19, 2018

News & Analysis

Derry Girls: Laughter and tears of working-class life during Troubles

By Courtney Robinson It’s fair to say that the Channel 4 hit Derry Girls, which was commissioned for a second series after its first episode, had us all in laughter and tears by the end of it. The series is set in

Mar 17, 2018

Britain: Corbyn’s customs union dividing line – stand firm for pro-worker Brexit

Editorial from The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party in England and Wales. “Those who say that the European Union is a neoliberal plot are, of course, largely right” admitted financial journalist and billionaire Simon Nixon in the Times last autumn. He

Feb 28, 2018

News & Analysis

Why a border poll offers no solution

By Stephen Boyd In the wake of last year’s “Brexit” vote and the demand of the Scottish National Party (SNP) for a second independence referendum in Scotland, Sinn Féin first and now the SDLP also, have raised the call for the holding

Sep 21, 2017

Northern Ireland- Page 4

Trade unionists respond to killing of Lyra McKee

Brexit: Trade unionists must stand for workers’ unity

Brexit and the border: A warning to the workers movement

North- Bonfire debate can ignite conflict

Misogyny, sexism & capitalism in the dock

Will the Agreement bring peace?- first published May 1998

British state repression, the IRA’s armed campaign and the Labour Movement

Derry Girls: Laughter and tears of working-class life during Troubles

Britain: Corbyn’s customs union dividing line – stand firm for pro-worker Brexit

Why a border poll offers no solution

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden