Northern Ireland
Loyalist bigots whip up race attacks in Northern Ireland
31 March 2009Some of the festering sectarianism that still dominates Northern Ireland came to the fore last weekend with more than a dozen racist attacks on migrants' homes in Belfast.
Behind Northern Ireland’s peace walls
17 March 2009A wave of anger against segregated housing lay at the heart of the civil rights movement that erupted in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s.
Northern Ireland: the peace illusion
17 March 2009The British media were filled last week with weasel words of peace from politicians following a spate of armed attacks on British troops and the police in Northern Ireland.
Who are the Republicans?
17 March 2009Violence wasn’t introduced into Northern Ireland by the "terrorists".
Local government workers win 0.3pc
10 March 2009Some 1.3 million local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, have received an award of an additional 0.3 percent pay rise, bringing the 2008-9 pay increase to 2.75 percent.
Northern Ireland: a sectarian state born in the violence of partition
10 March 2009Britain presided over the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921, when it was forced to quit the rest of Ireland. The six counties in the north were formed into a one-party state born in violence.
Special Reconnaissance Regiment’s record of murder
10 March 2009A few days prior to the attacks, Northern Ireland’s chief constable Sir Hugh Orde announced that British army special forces from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) were being deployed.
Are the Troubles set to return to Northern Ireland?
10 March 2009The killing of two British soldiers outside a barracks in Antrim last Saturday, followed by the subsequent killing of a police officer in Craigavon, have raised widespread fear that Northern Ireland’s "Troubles" might be set to blaze once more.
Hunger DVD
24 February 2009This film tells the story of Bobby Sands and hunger strikers in the H blocks of Northern Ireland.
New Derry protest against Raytheon's complicity in Israel's war crimes
20 January 2009Nine women protested in Derry, Northern Ireland, to stop Raytheon selling military components to Israel.
Derry occupation gets results
02 December 2008Workers at Calcast in Derry, Northern Ireland, have won better redundancy pay after occupying their factory. The plant makes parts for Ford. Some 90 redundancies were announced there.
Derry factory occupation against redundancies
25 November 2008Workers at Calcast in Derry, Northern Ireland, have gone into occupation after 90 redundancies were announced.
Hunger: The mundane evil at the heart of the British state
04 November 2008Looking back the shocking thing is just how mundane it was to visit Northern Ireland’s H Blocks of Long Kesh – or "the Maze" as the British called it.
Unison stifles debate on council pay talks
07 October 2008The leadership of the Unison union in local government met last weekend but failed to have a proper debate over the decision to go to binding arbitration over the pay claim covering workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland 1968: Derry’s days of rage
30 September 2008On 5 October 1968 a few hundred demonstrators assembled in the mainly Protestant area of the Waterside in Derry in Northern Ireland.
Unison’s call for arbitration in local government dispute is big set back
23 September 2008The fight by 600,000 Unison union members in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland against poverty pay took a disastrous turn for the worse last week.
TUC conference: abortion debate
09 September 2008The TUC overwhelmingly voted to call for an end to anti-abortion attacks on women’s rights and for improved access to abortion services. Their demands included extending abortion rights for women in Northern Ireland.
Early warning signals of attacks on local government ‘green book’
09 September 2008After two fantastic days of strike action in July there appears to be a worrying twist in the fight for decent pay for local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Letters
05 August 2008Northern Irish need Abortion Act Diane Abbott MP has tabled an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill to extend the Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. This long-overdue attempt to give equal rights to women in the North almost didn’t happen, despite it being Labour Party policy to support extension.
Public sector strikes making an impact on second day
17 July 2008The strike by the people who keep local services going every day continued into its second day in every town and city in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Classroom assistants, refuse collectors, admin workers, street sweepers, and other grades stopped work again.
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- Windrush scandal flows from Tory racism, not just incompetence
- School strikes are part of a big fight over the future of education
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