Latest move from the We Won't Pay Campaign
Print off this poster, put it in your window - and send the message to the Assembly, they can stuff their Bills!!!
The Belfast office has designed a new, currect affairs site for the SP in Northern Ireland. This old site will be maintained but will tend to function as the Party archives. So, to be kept up to date on working class struggles, etc. visit the new SP site.
The mainly female Classroom Assistants in Northern Ireland were involved in industrial action today. This dispute has been brought about by the governments refusal to pay them a decent pay and has literally dragged on for 12 years! Read the leaflet distributed by the Socialist Party at picket lines and at the rally in Belfast city centre.
FIGHT for a living wage - Defend Services The 77% vote by postal workers in favour of strike action over pay and against proposed cutbacks in the postal service is a sure sign that things are starting to change. Read more here... |
Will the Assembly make a difference? Ciaran Mulholand The government of Northern Ireland is once again in the hands of the local political parties. A new Executive is up and running, dominated by Sinn Fein and the DUP. The fact that Sinn Fein and the DUP have come together is trumpeted by many commentators, and the British and Irish governments, as a turning point. Read more here.. |
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The things they all agree on
Ciaran Mulholland The new Executive has adopted an unashamed neo-liberal tone from the outset. Politicians from all the main parties, prominent business people and commentators all agree that business pays too much tax and that working people don’t pay enough. All agree that we are "too dependent" on the public sector and our salvation lies in private sector growth. Read more here.. |
A new voice for the working class is needed Gary Mulcahy There is no opposition within the Assembly to the right-wing agenda the Executive will try to implement. But outside of Stormont, hundreds of thousands of working people will be forced to come out in opposition to attacks on pay and conditions, privatisation, water charges and cuts in public services. Read more here.. |
| Power-sharing internationally - How and why it has failed Peter Hadden The idea that power sharing, as now exists at Stormont, will end the conflict and lay the national question once and for all to rest, is not borne out by international experience. Read more here.. |
Scrap Water Charges completely Danny Donnelly, We Won't Pay Campaign, Larne The huge thorn in the side of the freshly elected Assembly that is the hated water charges is currently subject to review by the parties in Stormont. Read more here.. |
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Latest move from the We Won't Pay CampaignPrint off this poster, put it in your window - and send the message to the Assembly, they can stuff their Bills!!! |
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Review of "An album of sedition" by John Gowland, Australian CWI
Here's an interesting site where you can hear dozens of differing language versions, and styles of song, of the Internationale, the workers anthem. Listen in, prepare for the next occassion so you don't have to mime!! Visit here -http://www.hymn.ru/internationale/index-en.html
We've started to put recent leaflets online. A recent selection includes ones at Belfast May Day, for the Fords workers, Socialist Youth protests against the deportation of Afghani refugees and against sectarian attacks in Ballymena. More here...
An essential document from the archives, from 1987. To build a revolutionary party, Marxists must orientate the bulk of their work towards the youth. This has been borne out by the experience of the Bolsheviks and of the Marxists in the more recent period. Read the rest of this document.
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We intend to reprint a series of articles from our past papers. The Socialist Party is politically confident in the material we did produce, we don't hide our politics. Check them out to see how we've consistently argued for workers unity and socialism in Northern Ireland. |
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For what seems to be an accurate list of the deaths in Iraq,
checkout this site.http://www.iraqbodycount.net/bodycount.htm
They also produced this logo showing the rising finanical cost of the war.
Are you looking for an article the SP wrote a while ago? Well now you can find it. Several hundred articles, documents, press statements issued by the SP and the CWI over the past couple of years can now be searched. Go along to sitemap.
If you can't find an article of interest, or if a link is broken, please let us know. socialistpartyni@btconnect.com
New Pamphlet: We Won't Pay! - How to defeat water chargesBy Gary MulcahyThe government has ignored the overwhelming opposition to the introduction of water charges in Northern Ireland and plans to introduce them in April 2007. In response, the Socialist Party has played a central role in building the We Won't Pay Campaign in order to build support for mass non-payment of the charges. For those who wish to hear how a campaign of mass non-payment can be built, this pamphlet is a must read. It is also a damning critique of the politicians who agreed in principle to introduce water charges during the last Assembly, and outlines the need for a socialist alternative for workers, youth and the unemployed. Make sure to order your copy today. Price is £3/Euro5 and is available from Socialist Party, 13 Lombard St Belfast BT1 1RB Tel 028 90 232962 |
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