News: Raytheon Anti War
Mar 05, 2010
Nine women members of the Derry Anti-War Coalition face trial
for occupying Raytheon’s offices in Derry during Israel’s assault on Gaza in January 2009.
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News: Greece
Mar 01, 2010
Following the spectacular general strikes in Greece opposing the austerity programmes of the government there, Socialist Worker is delighted to announce that Sotiris Kontogiannis is flying over from Athens to give a first-hand eye-witness account of events in that country.
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Feb 26, 2010
Anyone still living with the delusion that
Sinn Fein is a party of the Left should look up its latest pronouncement on law
and order.
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News: Water Charges
Feb 25, 2010
Campaigners against water charges in the
North are preparing for action as the Executive parties hint they might renege
on pledges made before the last election.
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News: Libraries
Feb 25, 2010
Libraries NI – the board responsible for governing libraries across the North have stated that they want a review into the possibility of closing 14 libraries in the greater Belfast area.
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News: People Before Profit Alliance
Feb 22, 2010
Eamonn McCann is to fight the Foyle
constituency under the People Before Profit banner in the forthcoming
Westminster general election. The poll will likely be held on May 6.
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News: NI Assembly
Feb 02, 2010
As the Stormont institutions teetered on the brink of collapse, Executive Ministers continued their attacks on front-line services.
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Feb 02, 2010
The lurid details of Iris Robinson’s
private life have provided rich pickings for the media. But the involvement of
rich property developers is more important, writes Eamonn McCann
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News: BNP
Jan 28, 2010
The BNP is trying to establish itself, and recruit members, in Larne and across Northern Ireland.
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News: Fujitsu
Jan 21, 2010
Fujitsu workers launch their latest
round of strike action today across the UK including Northern Ireland. This is the text of the latest Socialist Worker leaflet
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News: Israel-Palestine
By Wendy McCloskey
Jan 20, 2010
On Thursday 14th January the Derry Anti-war Coalition (DAWC) hosted an evening of spectacular music to celebrate the safe return of the 5 Derry drivers on the Viva Palestina Convoy.
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Jan 14, 2010
Eamonn McCann looks at the different stances of Sinn Fein North an South following recent defections of elected members
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News: Raytheon
By Goretti Horgan
Jan 13, 2010
Raytheon, the third largest
missile manufacturer in the world has announced it’s leaving Derry. The
announcement is a huge victory for People Power and shows how a sustained and
determined campaign can win against even some of the world’s most powerful and
influential corporations, writes Goretti Horgan (One of the nine women currently on trial)
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Briefing: Stormont
Jan 11, 2010
Even before the Robinson
corruption scandal hit, the current crisis in the Assembly was represented on
our TV screens after the North-South Ministerial Council meeting in Limavady on
Monday 14th Dec. The Chuckle Brothers were gone completely – replaced
by a dour Peter Robinson tut-tutting at Martin McGuinness’s comments and by a
stern McGuinness shaking his head at Robinson’s views.
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News: Raytheon
Jan 10, 2010
14 Derry people are being arraigned at Derry Crown Court, this Monday, 11 January.
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News: Fujitsu
Jan 09, 2010
Hundreds of IT workers at Fujitsu services are to start five days of strikes starting this week.
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News: BNP
Jan 09, 2010
The fascist British National Party again
attempted to organise in Larne, Northern Ireland, last month.
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Feature: Israel-Palestine
By Colm Bryce
Jan 07, 2010
After
travelling more than 3,000 miles through Europe, Turkey and Syria, the Viva Palestina convoy
of 250 vehicles, including ambulances from Derry and Cork, arrived at the
Jordanian border with Egypt at the Red Sea port of Aqaba on 26 December, writes Colm Bryce.
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News: Israel-Palestine
Jan 06, 2010
Viva Palestina Convoy, including Irish citizens,
attacked by police in Egypt
Over 40 activists injured, including one man from
Cork, seven arrested
Convoy due to reach Gaza later today, after
deal, report the IPSC Press Office
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News: Fujitsu
By Gerry Carroll
Jan 06, 2010
Fujitsu workers across the UK have started
industrial action against management’s job cuts, attacks on pay and pensions, writes Gerry Carroll
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News: Israel-Palestine
Jan 05, 2010
The Viva Palestina humanitarian aid convoy travelling to Gaza with medical and humantarian aid has been held up by the Egyption authorities and surrounded by riot police in Al-Arish today (Tuesday).
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News: Climate Change
By Donal Mac Fhearraigh
Jan 05, 2010
To anybody interested in the future of the earth’s climate,
the conclusion of the Copenhagen conference represents either colossal
disappointment or profound rage, writes Donal Mac Fhearraigh
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Editorial: Cuts
By Eamonn McCann
Jan 05, 2010
None of the mainstream parties can be
depended on to defend the interests of those bearing the brunt of the cuts, write Eamonn McCann
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News: Budget
By Sean McVeigh
Dec 11, 2009
When the British government announced in its December mini-budget that almost one in three Northern Ireland workers are to get a pay cut, the Stormont finance minister Sammy Wilson had the cheek and arrogance to say people could "breathe a sigh of relief", writes Sean McVeigh
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News: Privatisation
Dec 09, 2009
While the DUP and Sinn Féin publicly bicker on the fine points of devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont, behind the scenes both parties agree that working people must pay for the economic crisis, writes Sean McVeigh
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Dec 07, 2009
The publication on November 26th of the report by Judge Yvonne Murphy into how the Irish State handled allegations of child sex abuse by priests in the Dublin diocese prompted widespread calls for action against both bishops and State officials. But so far,
no sign, writes Eamonn McCann
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Feature: Church
By Eamonn McCann
Nov 28, 2009
On Monday November 16th
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the thousands of surviving
“orphans” from the Child Migrants Scheme, under which up to 150,000 children
had been brought in batches from Britain and Ireland to stock the continent
with white Christians. Eamonn McCann recounts the story of one of the children taken.
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News: Migrant Workers
By Michael Collins
Nov 27, 2009
Unison has said urgent action is needed
after conducting a report on Migrant Workers and the Recession. The report was
a harrowing look into the reality of the difficulties migrant workers face when
they come to work here, writes Michael Collins.
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News: Global Warming
Nov 26, 2009
1pm Sat 5 Dec, Bank Sq (beside Kelly's Cellar Pub), Belfast
Tell the Assembly:
Invest in Green jobs & energy;
Invest in Public transport;
No to cuts in Public Services
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News: Royal Mail
Nov 21, 2009
Leaders of the postal workers’ union were wrong to suspend strikes at Royal Mail, writes a CWU union area processing rep in Cambridge
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Feature: Child Poverty
By Goretti Horgan
Nov 20, 2009
The report on child poverty in Northern Ireland, written by Marina Monteith and I and published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is not a good news story.
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News: Cuts
Nov 19, 2009
Sammy Wilson and the Assembly politicians want to slash public services to pay for the mess the bankers created.
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Nov 18, 2009
By Michael Potter, the Policy and Research Officer for the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme (STEP) in Dungannon, an organisation which supports vulnerable people in the community, including migrant workers and people from a minority ethnic background.
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Nov 18, 2009
Brass Neck of the Year award goes to Jim Gibney of Sinn Féin for his column in the Irish News on November 12th, writes Eamonn McCann
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News: Afghanistan
Nov 18, 2009
Gordon Brown's Afghan strategy lies in tatters. Millions of people want the troops brought home right now.
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Nov 13, 2009
Was the relentless pressure for displays of the poppy in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Sunday an expression of ethical idealism? asks Eamonn McCann
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News: Royal Mail
Nov 12, 2009
The postal workers have not been defeated or crushed but our struggle has been curtailed by the CWU union leaders' decision to conclude an "interim agreement" and halt the action.
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News: Cuts
Oct 30, 2009
The North is set for a wave of savage cuts as the Executive imposes measures decreed by the Treasury
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News: MLAs
Oct 30, 2009
These are the same politicians who want to slash our public services by cutting 370 million in this year's budget.
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News: Royal Mail
Oct 29, 2009
The postal workers are absolutely right to strike to defend their working conditions and to stop Peter Mandelson's plans to privatize the postal service.
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News: Womens Rights
By Eamonn McCann
Oct 28, 2009
The hypocrisy of the British Government with regard to abortion in the North was clear last month in a document published by the Department for International Development, writes Eamonn McCann
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News: Sectarianism
Oct 28, 2009
Over a decade after the Good Friday Agreement, there are now almost twice as many 'peace lines' in Belfast than there were when it was signed.
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News: Anti War
Oct 20, 2009
On the 12th August 2006, during the Israeli military campaign against Lebanon, 9 men stormed an arms factory in Derry, Northern Ireland.
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News: BNP
Oct 17, 2009
Anti-fascist
campaigners are promising a storm of protest in response to the news that Nazi
leader Nick Griffin is to appear on the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme
in London on Thursday 22 October.
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News: Cuts
Oct 11, 2009
By Eamonn McCann and Donal Mac Fhearraigh: We urge you to get on the streets on November 6th so show your opposition to the cuts.
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News: Postal workers
Oct 11, 2009
What a great result! Postal workers have voted 76 percent yes for a national strike on a 67 percent turnout. Now let's start national action
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News: Anti War
Oct 11, 2009
Belfast Public Meeting with Guest Speaker : John Rees (co-founder UK Stop the War Coalition,)7.30pm, Monday 12th October, Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre
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Sep 10, 2009
Many supporters of the Palestinian cause have been dismayed - and Sinn Feiners have been embarrassed - by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness meeting with the Israeli ambassador to the UK during his visit to Belfast in May.
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News: Anti Racism
By Gordon Hewitt
Sep 07, 2009
Back in January Sammy Wilson put forward
the argument that jobs in Northern Ireland should be prioritised for local
people. And by “local” he meant people “born” in Northern Ireland.
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News: Migrant Rights
By Barbara Muldoon
Sep 07, 2009
In a recent report entitled “No Home from
Home” the NI Human Rights Commission has shown how the UK’s immigration laws
are leading to the enforced destitution and homelessness of some of the most
vulnerable people living in Northern Ireland.
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News: Privatisation
Sep 01, 2009
Just as market solutions have been exposed around the world as lacking any credibility, the Executive at Stormont has been busy drawing up legislation that threatens to unleash a new wave of privatisation across the North
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News: Fujitsu
By Ian Allinson
Aug 30, 2009
UNITE and PCS members at IT services giant Fujitsu have voted overwhelmingly to strike in UK-wide consultative ballots which closed last week.
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News: Royal Mail
Aug 24, 2009
Members of the Communication Workers Union held a 24 hour strike at Carrickfergus Royal Mail Delivery Office on Saturday 17th August
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News: Gay Liberation
Aug 24, 2009
The gig of the year is back again!! Since we breathed new life in the Foyle Gay Pride 3 years ago the undoubted highlight of each Pride has been the Rock for Pride.
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Editorial: Sectarianism
By Eamonn McCann
Aug 20, 2009
The best way to counter right-wing politicians like Sammy Wilson and racist organisations like the BNP is to campaign for politics which bring people together on a basis which has nothing to do with the community or the country they come from
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News: Belfast traffic wardens
Aug 20, 2009
Belfast traffic wardens have won their jobs back.
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News: BNP
By Gerry Carroll
Aug 20, 2009
It was revealed in the Belfast Telegraph last month that the Nazi British National Party are operating a national call centre in Dundonald in East Belfast.
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Aug 17, 2009
The experience of regeneration schemes everywhere in the world is that they do not
have much impact on the health or wealth of people in the most disadvantaged
communities – even when they are actually in the areas being regenerated.
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Aug 11, 2009
The world is full of people who look back at history and tell you that they saw it all coming. I wish they told me at the time. If you have a sketchy history in mind of the past 40 years, you’ll know that the Battle of Bogside led on to the Provisional IRA and 30 years of guerrilla warfare that saw more than 3,000 people die.
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Aug 01, 2009
The modern day gay liberation movement and Gay Pride festival was born 40 years ago out of the Stonewall Riots of 1969. The LGBT residents of New York decided ‘enough was enough’ and initiated two days of riots against a government-sponsored system which had systematically persecuted sexual minorities and their human rights.
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Jul 26, 2009
This year has seen sectarianism at its highest level since the mid-1990s. There have been a series of attacks on catholic homes and GAA halls, followed by attacks on Orange Halls.
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News: Health
Jul 06, 2009
A high number of tanning parlours have shockingly poor standards of practice and a severe lack of staff training, including the provision of sunbeds designed for medical use only, a report due to be released at the British Association of Dermatologists’ annual conference this week will reveal.
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Feature: Anti Racism
Jun 22, 2009
Around five hundred people joined the rally against racism at City Hall in Belfast this afternoon (Saturday).
Photo Marty McCann
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Feature: Anti Racism
By Simon Basketter
Jun 20, 2009
The simmering sectarianism that still dominates Northern Ireland has boiled over this week with more than 100 Romanians forced out of their homes in a series of racist attacks in Belfast.
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Jun 19, 2009
A rally has been called for 2pm Saturday at City Hall to give people a chance to show their opposition against the recent racist attacks which drove over a hundred people from their homes.
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Editorial: Anti Racism
Jun 17, 2009
The appalling spectre of over a hundred people being driven from their homes in South Belfast by racist thugs must prompt the trade union movement in Ireland, North and South, to organise huge demonstrations on the streets.
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Feature: Anti Racism
By James O'Toole
Jun 17, 2009
The Romani people have suffered persecution
throughout their troubled history, particularly in Europe.
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News: Cuts
Jun 15, 2009
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Jun 15, 2009
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News: Sectarianism
Jun 15, 2009
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Feature: Jobs
By Barbara Muldoon
May 22, 2009
REPEAL THE ANTI TRADE UNION LAWS
DONT LET THE BOSSES MOVE JOBS
By Barbara Muldoon
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Editorial: Visteon
May 22, 2009
“Our struggle has been worthwhile – like the Waterford Crystal workers, we have led the way for everybody else. We want to make other companies think twice about treating workers like this again.” Rick Pineda, occupying worker at Visteon.
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Feature: Visteon
By Gordon Hewitt
May 22, 2009
By Gordon Hewitt
Gerry Adams said he would put his full weight behind the Ford/Visteon workers and his full backing for the campaign for everyone to be treated honourably.
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Feature: Racism
By Sara O’Rourke
May 21, 2009
By Sara O’Rourke
In recent weeks Declan Ganley and Libertas finally revealed what many have
suspected since their appearance in the Lisbon campaign: they will use racism
to try to build their movement.
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Feature: May Day
By By Gerry Carroll
May 12, 2009
By Gerry Carroll (pic: Paula Geraghty)
Saturday 2nd May saw thousands gathered on the streets of Belfast for the annual May Day rally.
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Feature: Visteon
May 06, 2009
The Ford/Visteon workers in Belfast have voted to accept a
deal from Ford that goes far beyond the companies standard redundancy package. The offer includes a year’s pay plus pay in lieu of notice, as well
as a backdated pay rise and a further payout linked to each worker’s age and
length of service.
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News: Visteon
By Gerry Carroll
Apr 29, 2009
Every worker in Northern Ireland and beyond should be
getting behind the Visteon workers. The occupation is still strong and the mood
is still militant.
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Apr 28, 2009
By Eamonn McCann
The Visteon sit-in is being followed closely by workers across the North and beyond, not least at Nortel, Bombardier, Nu-Track, Translink, NCP, etc., and throughout the public service, where employees are being bombarded with warnings that they have no option but to take what’s coming and accept job losses and worsening conditions.
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News: Visteon
Apr 27, 2009
Belfast Bus drivers stopped Buses in the city centre, in solidarity with the Visteon workers and in order attend the “Rally for Jobs” held by ICTU. The Bus drivers joined hundreds of other workers and took pride of place at the front of the Rally with the Visteon workers.
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News: Visteon
Apr 24, 2009
The High Court in Belfast has refused to order the eviction of the occupying Visteon workers in west Belfast. A legal attempt to remove workers was adjourned until a week on Friday.
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Feature: Visteon
Apr 22, 2009
On Tuesday 31 March, we the
Ford Visteon workers, occupied our factory in Belfast after managers told us
that the European company, was going into administration.
We were being closed down along
with sister plants in Basildon and Enfield. They instructed all 210 of us to
leave with just 6 minutes notice - without our wages being paid and no
redundancy packages would be honoured. Some of us have 40 yrs service! The
managers had safely transferred their conditions to another Visteon company
just before the company went into administration.
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News: Industry
Apr 15, 2009
Called by Irish Congress of Trades Unions 1PM
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Feature: Visteon
Apr 15, 2009
Workers all around the world are watching what is happening at Ford Visteon. The decision to occupy has inspired mil-lions who want to see a real fight back against job losses and attacks on conditions.
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News: Visteon
Apr 15, 2009
Closure of Visteon UK
Visteon UK was put into administration last week. But a confidential paper entitled Project Protea,
obtained by The Sunday Times and reproduced here, suggests planning for the rundown of the
Belfast plant had begun at least in the Spring of 2007.
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Feature: Visteon
Apr 13, 2009
Some 200 workers have occupied the Visteon car parts plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland, against job cuts.
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Editorial: Jobs
By Eamonn McCann
Apr 12, 2009
The media tell us nothing can be done about closures and
cutbacks. But fighting your corner is never futile. Workers never got anything
without fighting for it.
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Apr 09, 2009
By Barbara Muldoon
In the aftermath of the killing of three members of the
security forces, the Northern Ireland state has thrown every effort into
creating an idea that there are now only two sides in the North.
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Feature: Visteon
Apr 06, 2009
Visteon car workers in Belfast talk to Socialist Worker and Update
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Mar 08, 2009
Lone parents with children as young as seven will be subjected to the “Welfare to Work” regime.
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News: Cuts
Mar 06, 2009
People in Northern Ireland are being hit hard by the recession with job losses, home repossessions and high prices.
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News: Anti Racism
Feb 15, 2009
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News: Anti War
Jan 15, 2009
On Monday 12th Jan, nine women from the Derry Anti War Coalition tried to decommission the computer systems in the Raytheon plant.
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Feature: Jobs
By Goretti Horgan
Jan 15, 2009
In the first two weeks of January alone, over 5,000 people signed on the dole in the North.
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