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Workers mobilise over covid-19 threat, as Northern Ireland Executive divides

April 1, 2020 CWI Reporter, Belfast

The Covid-19 pandemic is everywhere exposing the dirty underbelly of modern capitalism. In Northern Ireland, decades of attacks by Tory and New Labour governments in Westminster, and from local parties, on NHS services, have left […]

Coronavirus: Belfast City council workers put at risk

March 21, 2020 Unite the trade union shop steward, Belfast City council

Many frontline local authority workers, including in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will be asked to maintain essential services throughout the coronavirus crisis. In doing so, they need to remember their first priority is their own survival […]

Ireland North: A wave of private and public sector strikes

March 2, 2020 Interview with Nipsa public sector union deputy general secretary Carmel Gates (in a personal capacity)

Northern Ireland’s government was suspended between 2017 and 2020 after the sectarian parties refused to reach a power-sharing agreement following the ‘cash for ash’ scandal. Now a strike wave has forced them and the bosses […]

Ireland North: Seeds for future growth sown by anti-austerity, labour and trade union candidate

December 16, 2019 CWI Ireland Reporters

Caroline Wheeler, a prominent anti-cuts activist and trade unionist, was the only candidate standing on a genuine cross-community, labour and trade union platform in the recent Westminster election in Northern Ireland, in the Fermanagh and […]

Northern Ireland: Strike action by NHS workers over pay and workload

November 27, 2019 CWI Reporter, Northern Ireland

For the first time in the Royal College of Nursing’s 103-year history, nurses have voted for strike action. They have been joined by the Unison union, and likely, the Nipsa and Unite unions, which are […]

Nationalisation only way to safeguard jobs and skills at Wrightbus, Ballymena

October 2, 2019 CWI Reporter, N Ireland

Wrightbus is one of the last remaining bus manufacturers in the UK and produced the Routemaster, also known as the ‘Boris bus’ (when Boris Johnson was mayor of London), for the London Transport Authority. The […]

Campaign mounts over historic sexual-abuse allegations cover-up in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

September 12, 2019 Councillor Donal O’Cofaigh, Cross Community Labour Alternative and CWI

Northern Ireland is a society scarred by its history. The legacy of the conflict over the national question is everywhere apparent; painted flags, kerbstones and murals mark territories and promote narratives. But just as the […]

Bogside residents defending their barricades against police and loyalist assault

Northern Ireland, August ’69: ‘Battle of the Bogside’ and British troops on the streets

August 14, 2019 Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers' International

Fifty years ago this month, troops were deployed on the streets of Derry and Belfast by the British Labour government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.The capitalist establishment described it at the time as a temporary […]

“Enough is enough”: 20,000 Northern Ireland civil servants strike against pay restraint

August 1, 2019 Carmel Gates, Nipsa deputy general secretary (personal capacity), from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party, CWI England & Wales)

Up to 20,000 civil servants across Northern Ireland took strike action on 26 July. Special financial appeal to all readers of socialistworld.net Support building alternative socialist media Socialistworld.net provides a unique analysis and perspective of […]

Harland and Wolff workers occupy Belfast shipyard demanding re-nationalisation

July 30, 2019 CWI Reporter, N Ireland

Harland and Wolff is the sole remaining shipbuilding business in the Belfast shipyard. The shipbuilding industry in Belfast has a four hundred year history and was most famously associated with the construction of the ill-fated […]