Sean Burns
Health workers win concessions: Industrial action gets results!
The recent round of industrial action taken in the health service was an example of the power that workers have through collective struggle. The campaign of escalating industrial action, involving multiple unions and including coordinated strikes, brought the issues of pay inequality and under-staffing to the fore.
Build a cross-community labour alternative
Socialist Party members are standing in this election as part of Cross Community Labour Alternative to offer a working-class opposition to austerity, inequality and sectarianism.
Catalonia: Workers’ movement must defend democratic rights
The Spanish state faced a regional revolt in 2017, with an unsanctioned referendum on Catalan independence called by the local administration against the wishes of the Madrid government. Following on from the referendum, senior officials in the Catalan government are now on trial for “rebellion” and “misuse of public funds”.