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Water service needs to be taken out of hands of Northern Ireland Water

Bosses from the private sector only interested in making profits, not a quality water service

The We Won’t Pay Campaign has called on the Northern Ireland Executive to intervene and bring the water service fully back into public ownership after a further 300 job losses were announced by the company.

 

Emergency job creation scheme needed now

Unemployment levels this week reached August 1998 levels with 8% officially unemployed. Paddy Meehan, the Socialist Party’s South Belfast spokesperson hit out at the Assembly’s lack of action on rising unemployment.

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’Third round on the streets’ - Big gains for Socialist Party and allies, and also for far right, but new Anti-capitalist Party in disarray

Little more than 24 hours after the second round of regional elections in France, strike action began on the railways, ushering in a day of action and protests in 80 cities across the country. March 23 was agreed on by the eight major trade union organisations to demonstrate mounting hostility to the government’s policies on jobs, pensions, working conditions and the cost of living. Mobilisation from on top was poor, but anger and hatred against Sarkozy has reached boiling point. He and his government have pushed ahead with attacks on the railway workers, universities, high schools, post office etc. Only in some cases, where widespread opposition has developed, has he been forced to step back.