Riots expose reality of sectarianism

Written by Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party Belfast Monday, 26 July 2010 12:16

Working class needs its own party

Fierce rioting erupted in Ardoyne after an Orange Order parade on 12 July and continued for three days. The period before, over and after this year’s Twelfth was also marked by rioting in other areas and a number of gun and bomb attacks. There was trouble across Belfast - including the New Lodge, Broadway, the Markets, Short Strand, Ormeau Road-and in Derry, Armagh, and Lurgan.

Build united action to stop the cuts

Written by Editorial of the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) Thursday, 08 July 2010 10:28

Across Europe governments are pursuing the same policy of savage cuts

Government departments to prepare for cuts of 40%... civil servants’ redundancy terms to be ripped up…housing benefit to be cut… plans to build new schools and hospitals to be scrapped… and so the list goes on. Every day this millionaires’ government announces another way it is going to heap misery on the population as it sets out to destroy our public services. Cuts on this scale have not been seen since the 1920s.

From stimulus to austerity at dizzying speed

Written by Editorial from theSocialist paper of the Socialist Party England & Wales Monday, 28 June 2010 21:42

The G20 meeting in Toronto of the leaders of the main capitalist governments of the world demonstrated a complete incapacity to solve the huge problems that confront us, particularly those hardest-hit - the poor and the working class - by the economic crisis.

This was supposed to be the economic summit that would 'celebrate' the so-called economic stimulus packages introduced by capitalist governments throughout the world, which 'saved' capitalism from a 'depression'.

Dissident republicanism - Nothing to offer but a return to sectarian killings

Written by Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party Monday, 21 June 2010 15:48

According to the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, dissident republican groups have been responsible for carrying out an average of two attacks a day since the beginning of the year. These attacks range from high profile car bombings targeted against the police and army to so-called punishment shootings in Catholic working class areas. Regardless of how “successful” they are in the attacks they carry out they have nothing to offer but a return to sectarian killings.

Bloody Sunday Saville Inquiry - Innocent protesters murdered by the British Army

Written by Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:40

Role of army chiefs and Establishment in killings and cover-up remains unanswered

The publication of the Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, more commonly known as the Saville Inquiry, has brought to light, once again, the murderous and brutal lengths the British capitalist state is prepared to go to defend its interests. The Saville Inquiry, which cost nearly £200 million and lasted 12 years, has officially confirmed what everyone has known all along - that those who were murdered by the British Army on Bloody Sunday were innocent. What the inquiry has failed to expose or even attempt to explain, is what was the role of the Edward Heath Tory government in 1972 and the British army chiefs, in the events of Bloody Sunday and in the subsequent cover-up. On these crucial questions, the Saville Inquiry is silent and has failed. In that respect, it is another form of an official cover-up of the role of the British state in the events of that day and their aftermath.

Why public sector cuts are not inevitable

Written by The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) Friday, 11 June 2010 08:30

The Tories claim that massive cuts are necessary because of New Labour's excessive public spending on services and welfare. This is a giant con trick, which every capitalist party - including New Labour - is colluding in. Nothing could be further from the truth. Under New Labour, as under the Tories before them, public spending on measures that decrease poverty has fallen back and as a result inequality and - for much of New Labour's tenure - poverty, have increased.

"They're all in this together" Fight their cutbacks

Written by Owen McCracken Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:51

The massive spending cuts the new “Con-Dem” government will announce in June’s emergency budget will be the first stage of an unrelenting attack on working class people, sustained over years. Despite the veneer of opposition from some MLA’s, the local politicians are fully committed to implementing this Thatcherite agenda.

This will amount to a colossal re-distribution of wealth away from workers to bail-out the banks and big business and will “Con-Dem” us to a future of attacks on vital public services, job losses, pay cuts, reductions in state benefits and increases in the retirement age, amongst other attacks.