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From ‘historic election’ to new crisis at Stormont
By Kevin Henry This year’s Assembly election was historic, with Sinn Féin emerging as the largest party, the…
Oppose Tories’ legacy bill #billofshame
The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill is a historic act of cowardice from the Tories and…
Thousands march for Irish language: Fight for real language rights for all
By Eóin Dawson and Maitiú de Hál (As Gaeilge) Five years after the historic An Dream Dearg [the…
Historic election marks new era of crisis for ‘peace process’
By Kevin Henry This year’s Assembly election was historic with Sinn Féin emerging as the largest party, the…
As rents sore we need emergency action on
housing
By Roise McCann THE cost of surviving is heightening before our eyes while wages remain stagnant. The cost…
Solidarity with LGBTQ community against homophobic & transphobic violence
The horrific murders of Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee in Sligo this week — crimes that appear to…
Assembly elections: We need a socialist alternative to sectarian division
By Daniel Waldron THE OVERARCHING nature of the Assembly election on 5th May will, unfortunately, be deeply sectarian.…
Cost of living crisis: workers not to blame for inflation
Here we carry the editorial from Socialist Alternative our sister organisation in England, Wales and Scotland Prices are…
“The cost of living is increasing very rapidly, and our wages are not keeping up!” Interview with a striking council worker
Council workers took strike action in Northern Ireland this week against a real-term pay-cut amidst a rising cost of living. The Socialist spoke to Cassie, an admin worker at Belfast City Hall organised in Unite the Union, about why she decided to take strike action.
Review: Belfast directed by Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh's biopic, Belfast, released in January 2022 to much applause. But for many Belfast natives, it fell flat. The film opens like an on-screen city break brochure, with all the modern visual icons, before fading to black and white and scenes of a typical Belfast street in 1969. Here we are introduced to a nine year-old Kenneth Branagh, "Buddy", as he naively navigates Belfast at the outbreak of the 30-year conflict which became known as "the Troubles".