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Paddy Meehan
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Catalonia – Election another blow to Spanish establishment
As we go to press, talks to create a new pro-independence government in Catalonia continue. The election on 21st December resulted in a majority for pro-independence parties. The Spanish state and the conservative Rajoy government had attempted to suppress the independence referendum and subsequently suspended Catalan autonomy, prompting the snap election.
Royal Mail workers fighting back
Royal Mail was privatised in 2013. The initial public offering went for a paltry £1.98 billion for the country’s postal services. This was a bung to the financial speculators by Vince Cable, the then Business Secretary in the Tory-Lib Dem government. On the first day of trading, share prices jumped 38%, making a tidy sum for the financial speculators.
Chilcot Inquiry – the bloody legacy of the occupation of Iraq
The invasion of Iraq on 20th March 2003, alongside the collapse of Lehmann Brothers in 2008, will be…
SDLP: Scrounging Desperately for Landlords Party
Rent controls needed to stop racketeering landlords The SDLP has come under attack for fielding the head of…
Health campaigner selected as candidate to fight local elections in Belfast
‘Re-open Belfast City A&E’ – key demand for Paddy Meehan in South Belfast Paddy Meehan, who was heavily…
Re-open Belfast City Hospital A&E now
Anti-cuts campaigners have called on the Health Minister Edwin Poots and the Assembly Executive to “re-open Belfast City…
1000 Stream jobs “mirage” exposed
Assembly has utterly failed to deliver decent jobs Stream’s announcement of “creating” nearly a thousand new jobs has…