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4 December 2019
Northern Ireland: Health workers take action over understaffing and pay equality
25,000 hard-pressed healthcare workers in Northern Ireland - including nurses, social care staff and support services - took action at NHS sites on 25 November, demanding that their longstanding concerns over safe staffing levels and pay parity be addressed
27 November 2019
Northern Ireland: strike action by NHS workers
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 Unison, and likely, the Nipsa and Unite unions which are now balloting for strike action.
6 November 2019
Northern Ireland: Uniting the working class to transcend division
Donal O'Cofaigh is the CWI's first elected councillor in Northern Ireland and is pioneering the struggle for independent working-class political representation in the North.
24 October 2019
The Brexit battles still to come
There is no neat solution at hand for the capitalists and their political representatives
9 October 2019
As 'Brexit Day' on 31 October approaches, the roller coaster crisis for British capitalism intensifies
18 September 2019
Northern Ireland: Campaign mounts over historic sexual abuse allegations cover-up
The fight for justice is intimately linked with challenging the culture of deference to authority which has held down and separated working-class people for too long
4 September 2019
Austerity anger feeds movement for Welsh independence
In the second of our series of articles exploring Brexit and the 'national question' Dave Reid secretary of the Socialist Party in Wales examines the situation there.
28 August 2019
Brexit and the border in Northern Ireland - will there be a return to the 'Troubles'?
Brexit has started a hare running over the consequences for the integrity of the UK.
14 August 2019
Northern Ireland, August '69: 'Battle of the Bogside' and British troops on the streets
Fifty years ago this month, troops were deployed on the streets of Derry and Belfast by the British Labour government of PM Harold Wilson.
31 July 2019
Harland and Wolff shipyard workers enter occupation
Demand government renationalise to save jobs and skills
31 July 2019
20,000 civil servants strike against pay restraint
The strike was provoked by the imposition of a below-inflation pay award
3 July 2019
Irish health workers' anger boils over into strike action
On 24 June over 10,000 workers in the Irish health service took strike action, ignoring Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar's last minute plea to call it off. This was the first day in a campaign of escalating strike action.
12 June 2019
For media commentators and pundits the big story of the local and European Union elections in Southern Ireland was the surge in support for the Green Party.
8 May 2019
Northern Ireland: Socialist wins council seat
"I want to help rebuild the labour movement as a real alternative to the dead end of Green and Orange politics"
24 April 2019
Socialist red lines needed for Brexit talks
Now '29 March' is to be "no later than 31 October", although a further extension at that point has not been ruled out. Absolutely nothing has been resolved.
24 April 2019
Northern Ireland: killing of Lyra McKee
Trade union movement must act: A mass, trade union-led campaign must oppose both the repression and the dire social conditions which drive young people into armed groups
13 February 2019
Workplace and union news in brief
Glasgow strike victory; Bradford bus victory; union action in Hackney; oil tanker strike; Irish nurses strike; home care doorstepping; Woolwich ferry walkout
6 February 2019
Historic strike of nurses in Ireland
Nearly 40,000 nurses and other health workers in Ireland started a 24-hour strike on 30 January to demand a pay rise. Their union, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, has more strike days planned in February.
21 November 2018
Solidarity with Irish rape trial protests
Megaphones and placards declaring "end victim-blaming" and "fight sexism - no to all oppression, no to austerity" were adorned with lacy thongs.
21 November 2018
Global opposition to victim blaming in rape trial
Global publicity followed after Solidarity TD and Socialist Party member Ruth Coppinger questioned Leo Varadkar in the Irish parliament
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