Over four decades, Peter Hadden and the comrades in the North of Ireland campaigned for workers’ unity and a socialist alternative, developed a Marxist analysis of the conflict and the national question and elaborated socialist demands, policies and programme.
Peter’s pamphlets and articles, which mainly deal with Ireland but also regarding international and other political issues, will appear regularly on MIA over the next months. They are taken from the pages of the Irish Socialist Party’s past and current journals (Militant Irish Monthly, Militant, Socialist Voice and The Socialist), from other CWI publications and also from the Socialist Party’s website and other CWI sites. To date, the pamphlets, Divide and Rule (1980), Beyond the Troubles? (1994), Troubled Times: The National Question in Ireland (1995), The Struggle for Socialism Today (1999) and Towards Division Not Peace (1999) are some of the writings now available online.
The archive shows the consistent principled class postion regarding Ireland and the national question that has been developed and defended by the Socialist Party and the entire CWI. The archive is not just of historical interest but is very relevant to workers, youth and socialists in Ireland, and internationally, struggling to change society today.
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With more hikes in fuel prices, this winter will see even more people deciding whether "to heat or eat".
The management of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust continue unabated with their agenda of cuts to frontline services. The Socialist Party can exclusively reveal that Thoracic and Vascular wards 4A and 4B in the Royal Victoria Hospital are to be amalgamated with the loss of approximately half the beds.
Pat Lawlor is a nurse at the neo-natal maternity ward in Royal Victoria Hospital. He is a long-time trade unionist activist who has earned a reputation for being an effective organizer and fighter for workers in the Royal. Pat is currently a Unite rep and is involved in building the Health Workers Action Group. Pat is the secretary of the anti-water charges We Won’t Pay Campaign which built mass support for non-payment of water charges. The real reason why water charges have not been introduced as yet has been because of the We Won’t Pay Campaign success in building mass opposition and collecting 120,000 signatures of people who would refuse to pay the charges.