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Phoenix Gas Price Hike: Nationalise the Utility Companies!
Tommy Black, East Belfast Socialist Party candidate, has labelled the 39% price hike by Pheonix Gas “disgusting” and called for major utility companies to be brought in public ownership
Mr. Black stated:
“This price hike is a disgusting assault on working-class people. It will push the average domestic gas bill to over £580 a year, at a time when families are under huge financial pressure. Northern Ireland already has the highest rates of fuel poverty in the UK.”
How to stop the racist attacks
This article was written on 21 February 2004 after a number of racist attacks against ethnic minorities at the end of 2003 and beginning of 2004.
Over December and January a spate of racist attacks against members of ethnic minority communities living in Belfast received international media attention. In an article on 10 January, The Guardian labelled Northern Ireland "the race-hate capital of Europe".
Hermitage attack pay and conditions
A generalised assault is underway against the pay and conditions of workers in the private health sector. In the likes of the Bon Secours and the Mater Private the employers have sought to impliment paycuts in line with the governement attacks on public service pay.
However the Hermitage Clinic in Lucan has gone even further. In September/October 2009 they began a sham consultation with the clinic's 300 staff (half of whom are nurses in the INMO and the remainder other technical and admin grades represented by SIPTU) about implemented cost saving measures. This came on the back of a major investor pulling out of the clinic.
Nationalise Murdoch’s press!
‘Murdochgate’ is Britain’s Watergate
‘Murdochgate’ is Britain’s Watergate. In politics, as in nature, the ‘butterfly effect’ operates. A seemingly small event – the famous metaphor of the flutter of a butterfly’s wings – can begin a chain of events resulting in massive unforeseen consequences.